Commonwealth v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. King (2005), Commonwealth v. Disler (2008)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 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 Morissette v. United States · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Sherry · 4 Cal. 4th 354 - People v. Williams · State v. Smith
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gravamen of the [rape] charge, as set forth in the statute, is sexual penetration by force and against the [victim's] will or by threat of bodily injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“eviscerate the long-standing rule in this Commonwealth that victims need not use any force to resist an attack.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“compels such person to submit by force and against his [or her] will, or ... by threat of bodily injury”
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.