Commonwealth v. Delaney’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Alphas (1999), Commonwealth v. Wilson (1998)
2 district · 86 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. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald · Commonwealth v. De Christoforo · Commonwealth v. Shelley · Commonwealth v. Clary
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew of the order.... Th[e] statute ... requires no more knowledge than that the defendant knew of the order. We decline to read any additional mens rea requirements into the statute.”
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.