93 Mass. App. Ct. 438 - Commonwealth v. Alden’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 2022
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Domanski · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Commonwealth v. Sheline · Commonwealth v. Hartford
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to determine whether the Commonwealth's position as to proof deteriorated after it closed its case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e [first] consider the state of the evidence at the close of the Commonwealth's case to determine ... whether the Commonwealth [had] presented sufficient evidence of the defendant's guilt to submit the case to the jury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“contrary evidence ... so overwhelming that no rational [trier of fact] could conclude that the defendant was guilty.”
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.