Commonwealth v. Nicholas’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
August 2007
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Sefranka · Commonwealth v. Ferguson · Commonwealth v. Scagliotti · Commonwealth v. Templeman · Commonwealth v. Beauchemin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he essential query is whether the defendant intended public exposure or recklessly disregarded a substantial risk of exposure to one or more persons .... The Commonwealth must prove that the likelihood of being observed by casual passersby must have been reasonably foreseeable to the defendant, or stated otherwise, that the defendant acted upon an unreasonable expectation that his conduct would remain secret.” Commonwealth v. Nicholas, 40 Mass. App. Ct. 255, 257 (1996) (citations omitted).”
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.