26 Mass. App. Ct. 595 - Commonwealth v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2019
18 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 Vandygriff v. Phillips · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc. · Tisdale v. United States · Kilcullen v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he inference permitted by possession of recently stolen property can be a strong one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“either knew or believed [the] property was stolen property at the time it came into his possession, or at any time while it was in his possession he ascertained that it was stolen property and he undertook to deprive the owner of his rightful use of it.”
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.