Commonwealth v. Knap’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Alvarez (1992), Commonwealth v. Sheriff (1997)
2 district · 21 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 Dennis v. United States · Smith v. People of the State of California · Lambert v. People of the State of California · Commonwealth v. Toney · Commonwealth v. Burke
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a prosecution under this section, a child under the age of fourteen years shall be deemed incapable of consenting to any conduct of the defendant for which said defendant is being prosecuted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Strict criminal liability is not necessarily a denial of due process of law, and in the case of statutory * rape it is not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there may be numerous reasons why an innocent person might [flee]”
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.