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Commonwealth v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
2
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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 passage
  2. “subject to a one day to life commitment.”
    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.