Commonwealth v. Fleury’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2019
23 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. Licata · Commonwealth v. Sherry · Commonwealth v. Mayfield · Commonwealth v. Amirault · Commonwealth v. Bailey
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ t]he eases involving child sexual abuse constitute a factually distinct branch of the fresh complaint doctrine that gives special consideration to the natural fear, ignorance, and susceptibility to intimidations that is unique to a young child’s make-up.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the age of the complainant, the emotions of embarrassment, confusion, and fear attendant in the case, the relationship between the complainant and the defendant, whether the defendant held a position of trust in the complainant’s life, whether the defendant threatened or coerced the complain ant, and, where the defendant played some supervisory role in the complainant’s life, the length of time that the complainant was out from under the defendant’s control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the defendant held a position of trust in the complainant's life.”
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.