Commonwealth v. Gorassi’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 16 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Porro (2010), Commonwealth v. Melton (2002)
8 federal appellate · 16 district · 39 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. Latimore · Commonwealth v. O'DELL · Commonwealth v. Delgado · Wilson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Burke
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case of a threatened battery type of assault, the Commonwealth must prove that the defendant engaged in 'objectively menacing' conduct with the intent to put the victim in fear of immediate bodily harm.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n assault may be accomplished in one of two ways-either by an attempted battery, or by putting another in fear of an immediately threatened battery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an assault is defined as either an attempt to use physical force on another, or as a threat of use of physical force.”
2 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.