87 Mass. App. Ct. 720 - Commonwealth v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Grubbs · Commonwealth v. King · Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago · Commonwealth v. O'CONNOR · Commonwealth v. Johnson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he propriety of joining offenses for a single trial often turns on whether evidence of the other offenses would be admissible in separate trials on each offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless there has been 'a clear abuse of discretion.'”
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.