Commonwealth v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bruno (2000), Commonwealth v. McLeod (2002)
47 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 Gault · Speiser v. Randall · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Jackson v. Indiana · Breed v. Jones
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While commitment proceedings under c. 123A are civil proceedings, the potential deprivation of liberty to those persons subjected to these proceedings 'mandates that due process protections apply' "). In fact, we have stated that a determination of sexual dangerousness "may have far more serious consequences for the individual than criminal punishment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re R.B.“subject to a one day to life commitment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re R.B.
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.