37 Mass. App. Ct. 290 - Commonwealth v. Conefrey’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2014
12 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 Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. O'Brien · Texas v. Johnson · Schad v. Arizona
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nonconsent is only an element of indecent assault and battery for victims over fourteen [§13H]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]onconsent is an element of the crime of indecent assault and battery on a person who has attained the age of fourteen”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification, or offense,”
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.