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← 89 MASSAPPCT 752 - Commonwealth v. Gilman

Commonwealth v. Gilman’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
March 2022
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Crayton · Commonwealth v. Zinser · Commonwealth v. Lao · 37 Mass. App. Ct. 339 - Commonwealth v. Adamides

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

  1. “the proponent must produce evidence sufficient to support a finding that the item is what the proponent claims it is.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1106 - Commonwealth v. Bowen · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1109 - Commonwealth v. Rentas
  2. “[t]here must be some 'confirming circumstances' sufficient for a reasonable jury to find by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant authored' the messages.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1109 - Commonwealth v. Rentas
  3. “Commonwealth v. Foster F ., 86 Mass. App. Ct. 734 , 737 (2014).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Commonwealth v. McMahon

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.