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92 Mass. App. Ct. 824 - Commonwealth v. Proia’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

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

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Crayton · Commonwealth v. Brzezinski · Commonwealth v. Albano · Commonwealth v. Pratt

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. “argue 'the evidence and the fair inferences which can be drawn from the evidence.' " Commonwealth v. Rivera , 91 Mass. App. Ct. 796 , 801, 81 N.E.3d 327 (2017), quoting Commonwealth v. Braley , 449 Mass. 316 , 329, 867 N.E.2d 743 (2007). "Because the defendant did not object to the prosecutor's closing statement at trial, we review [any error] for a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the defendant did not object with the precision required to preserve the error on appeal, as she failed to delineate any specific evidentiary basis for the objection.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “may be established by circumstantial evidence, and the inferences that can be drawn therefrom.”
    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.