Commonwealth v. Lavigne’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Felix Sutherland v. Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States (2000), Sasan Maghsoudi v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1999)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 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. Gallant · Commonwealth v. Conefrey · Commonwealth v. Cordle · 30 Mass. App. Ct. 181 - Commonwealth v. Mosby · Commonwealth v. Jasmin
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] touching ... [that] when, judged by the normative standard of societal mores, is violative of social and behavioral expectations, in a manner which is fundamentally offensive to contemporary moral values and which the common sense of society would regard as immodest, immoral, and improper. So defined the term indecent affords a reasonable opportunity for a person of ordinary intelligence to know what is prohibited.”
5 later decisions 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.