Commonwealth v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hopkins v. Reeves · Commonwealth v. Delaney · Commonwealth v. Collier · Commonwealth v. Butler · Pike v. Maguire
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 Commonwealth is not required to prove that the defendant actually intended to violate the order, but only to prove that the act constituting the violation was voluntary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cannot be used as an occasion to harass, threaten, or intimidate the protected party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was an abuse prevention order in effect.”
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.