93 Mass. App. Ct. 609 - Commonwealth v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · Nash v. United States · Commonwealth v. King
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be admissible to prove opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, pattern of operation, or common scheme or course of conduct, as long as the probative value of the evidence is not outweighed by the risk of unfair prejudice.”
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.