95 Mass. App. Ct. 303 - Commonwealth v. Meola’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
January 2023
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Huddleston v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth · Poirier v. Town of Plymouth
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.
“In the case of a digital communication that is relevant only if authored by the defendant, a judge is required to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to persuade a reasonable trier of fact that it is more likely than not that the defendant was the author of the communication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“could reasonably find the conditional fact ... by a preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ware“could find that the item in question is what its proponent claims it to be.”
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.