20 Mass. App. Ct. 36 - Commonwealth v. Perretti’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Felix Sutherland v. Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States (2000), Commonwealth v. Egerton (1986)
4 district · 33 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 Terry v. Ohio · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Manson v. Brathwaite · Commonwealth v. Freeman
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A touching is indecent [within the meaning of § 13H] when, judged by the normative standard of societal mores, it is violative of social and behavioral expectations, in a manner which is fundamentally offensive to contemporary moral values and which the common sense of society would regard as immodest, immoral, and improper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Commonwealth must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed an intentional, unprivileged, and indecent touching of the victim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fundamentally offensive to contemporary moral values”
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.