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← 84 MASSAPPCT 107 - Commonwealth v. Huggins

Commonwealth v. Huggins’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brinegar v. United States · United States v. Crews · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. Hason · Commonwealth v. Blais

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Because the defendant went to trial and was found guilty, there is no basis for a claim of prejudice resulting from a pretrial determination of probable cause.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[A] motion to dismiss a complaint [for lack of probable cause] 'is decided from the four corners of the complaint application, without evidentiary hearing.'”
    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.