Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. McGhee (2015), Commonwealth v. Williamson (2012)
2 federal appellate · 52 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 Green v. Wyman-Gordon Co. · Commonwealth v. Joyce · Commonwealth v. McKay · Commonwealth v. Gouveia · Commonwealth v. Gardner
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prejudice or disbelief occurs with particular intensity when the complainant is a prostitute. ... Prostitutes are frequent victims of rape. See, e.g., Anderson, From Chastity Requirement to Sexuality License: Sexual. Consent and a New Rape Shield Law, 70 Geo. Wash. L.Rev. 51, 113 & n. 367 (2002) (citing studies substantiating that more than seventy per cent of prostitutes are victims of rape). Yet societal beliefs persist that prostitutes cannot be raped, or that they are not harmed by rape, or that they somehow deserve to be raped.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“specific instances of a victim's sexual conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.