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← 83 MASSAPPCT 640 - Commonwealth v. Rosario

Commonwealth v. Rosario’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Beckett · Commonwealth v. Merola · Commonwealth v. Clary · Commonwealth v. Lao

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the evidence and reasonable inferences drawn therefrom were sufficient to establish that the defendant acted ... with the requisite intent for witness intimidation”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[m]atters . . . are rarely proved by direct evidence and are most often proved circumstantially”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.