36 Mass. App. Ct. 455 - Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Porro (2010), Commonwealth v. Souza (1998)
8 federal appellate · 21 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 Commonwealth v. Henson · Commonwealth v. Appleby · Commonwealth v. Sires · Commonwealth v. McCan · Commonwealth v. Johnson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne who takes property without the authority of the owner and so uses it or disposes of it as to show indifference whether the owner recovers possession may be found to intend to deprive the owner of it permanently”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is not necessary that the defendant specifically intended to touch [the victim]. It is only necessary that he intentionally did the act which resulted in the touching, as opposed to having done it accidentally.””
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.