26 Mass. App. Ct. 448 - Commonwealth v. Kapsalis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2006
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Williamson v. United States · Connolly v. Commonwealth · United States v. Poludniak · Flynn v. City of Cambridge
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.
“Whoever willfully violates any provision of this act or any rule or regulation hereunder promulgated ... shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days or both . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any person who violates this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars. The removal of each unit shall constitute a separate violation.”
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.