Redgate’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2011
1 district · 5 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 Royal Indemnity Co. v. Blakely · DeJoinville v. Commonwealth · Gagnon · Commonwealth v. Arment · LeBlanc v. Commonwealth
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore, effective April 6, 1986, the law of this Commonwealth, as provided in St. 1985, c. 752, was that a prisoner sentenced for a crime committed after April 6, could not be subjected to an examination leading to further SDP proceedings without having engaged in sexually assaultive behavior in prison, but a prisoner, such as [the petitioner], sentenced for a crime that occurred before April 6, could be subjected to such an examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Redgate“[The] provisions of section six of chapter one hundred and twenty-three A of the General Laws shall apply only to persons sentenced for offenses committed on or after the effective date of this act. Said provisions as they appeared prior to the effective date of this act shall apply to persons sentenced for offenses committed prior to said effective date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Redgate“Proceedings under G.L.c. 123A, § 9, are to determine the single issue whether or not the petitioner is a sexually dangerous person, as defined by G.L.c. 123A, § 1.... In order to simplify and expedite hearings under G.L.c. 123A, § 9, such hearings should be restricted to the sole issue for which they were intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Redgate
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.