Commonwealth v. LePore’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Chou (2001), Abraham v. Nagle (1997)
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 17 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. Latimore · Vermont v. Cox · Matter of Banks · Alegata v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. a Juvenile
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Acting the 'Peeping Tom' offends and results in disorder by invading the privacy of persons precisely where they are most entitled to feel secure -- where they live and rest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 53, which has long lineage, is a vessel into which the Legislature has tossed a variety of conduct thought sufficiently offensive to society to be declared criminal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To be disorderly within the sense of the statute, the conduct must disturb through acts other than speech ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abraham v. Nagle
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.