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← 84 MASSAPPCT 760 - Commonwealth v. Garcia

Commonwealth v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

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

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Rodriquez · Commonwealth v. Connor · Commonwealth v. Garrey · Commonwealth v. Swafford · Commonwealth v. Leftwich

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

  1. “If the 'problem' juror is questioned, the judge should preliminarily inform him that he cannot be discharged unless he has a personal problem, unrelated to his relationship to his fellow jurors or his views on the case. Unless the juror indicates a belief that he has such a problem, all questioning should cease.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “only [for] reasons personal to a juror, having nothing whatever to do with the issues of the case or with the juror's relationship with his fellow jurors.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “beyond the level that often accompanies deliberations,”
    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.