Commonwealth v. Clint C.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Quincy Q. (2001), Commonwealth v. Connor C. (2000)
2 district · 32 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 Wayte v. United States · Weems v. United States · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The commonwealth may proceed by complaint in juvenile court or in a juvenile session of a district court, as the case may be, or by indictment as provided by [G. L. c. 277], if a person is alleged to have committed an offense against a law of the commonwealth while between the ages of fourteen and seventeen which, if he were an adult, would be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, and the person has previously been committed to the department of youth services, or the offense involves the infliction or threat of serious bodily harm in violation of law or the person has committed a violation of [G. L. c. 269, § 10 (a), (c), or (d), or § 10E], The court shall proceed on the complaint or the indictment, as the case may be, in accordance with [G. L. c. 119, §§ 55-72], inclusive. Complaints and indictments brought against persons for such offenses, and for other criminal offenses properly joined under [Mass. R. Grim. R 9 (a) (1), 378 Mass. 859 (1979)], shall be brought in accordance with the usual course and manner of criminal proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a statute does not define its words we give them their usual and accepted meanings, as long as these meanings are consistent with the statutory purpose. . . . We derive the words' usual and accepted meaning from sources presumably known to the statute's enactors, such as their use in other legal contexts and dictionary definitions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Once a juvenile is treated as a youthful offender, he is no longer given the protections and privileges afforded to delinquent children.”
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.