9 Mass. App. Ct. 173 - Commonwealth v. Scanlan’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 587 So. 2d 848 - Holland v. State (1991), Commonwealth v. Bastarache (1980)
3 district · 27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Swain v. State of Alabama
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the internal discussion among jurors in the face of daily instructions from the judge to the contrary was undesirable ... we would embark on a slippery slope indeed if we began to monitor and evaluate the internal procedures of the jury... . The jury sat sequestered for sixteen days; it is not realistic that the jurors would succeed in keeping their lips sealed in the face of the alternating drama and tedium of the trial. In the interior workings of a jury there is room for impropriety that is short of unlawfulness.”
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.