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← 88 MASSAPPCT 466 - Commonwealth v. Berardi

Commonwealth v. Berardi’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Ross v. Oklahoma · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Frazier v. United States · Commonwealth v. Soares · Rivera v. Illinois

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.

  1. “[n]o irregularity in ... [the] impanelling of jurors shall be sufficient to set aside a verdict, unless the objecting party has been injured thereby or unless the objection was made before the verdict.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “twelve peremptory challenges of the jurors called to try the case ... [plus] one additional peremptory challenge for each additional juror”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “shall be entitled to one additional peremptory challenge for each additional juror.”
    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.