25 Mass. App. Ct. 965 - Commonwealth v. Redgate’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 1994
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Bastarache · Commonwealth v. Benders · Commonwealth v. Ruffen · 20 Mass. App. Ct. 36 - Commonwealth v. Perretti
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I’ve told you that penetration is an element of this crime and the penetration must be of the anal opening. That, under some circumstances, depending upon the position, would require penetration of the area between the cheeks of the buttocks, but the element of the crime requires further penetration of the anal . . . opening.””
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.