89 Mass. App. Ct. 485 - Commonwealth v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Clark · 88 Mass. App. Ct. 686 - Commonwealth v. Coutu
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.
“the critical inquiry is whether such testing has the 'potential' to result in material identification evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.