Commonwealth v. O'Shea’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2018
8 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. Gordon · Furtado v. Furtado · Commonwealth v. Robicheau · Commonwealth v. Brogan
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The word 'vicinity,' according to Black's Law Dictionary (6th ed. 1990), means, 'Quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; a region about, near or adjacent ....' The word is so imprecise that if we hold that the 'stay away' order means stay away from the 'vicinity' of the workplace, the order would fail to meet the requirement that it must be clear."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“create[s] a safe haven for [the protected person] at her workplace, a place 'in which no further abuse need be feared ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he 'stay away' order is not limited to preventing the defendant from merely entering the town hall itself ( [the protected person's] workplace). Rather, such an order ... extends to all of the property on which the workplace is located[,] including the adjacent parking lot.”
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.