Commonwealth v. Nieves’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
35
cited by 35 later decisions
5
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Rochin v. People of California · Kansas v. Hendricks · Baxstrom v. Herold · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The robust, adversary character of the c. 123A procedure minimizes the risk of the erroneous commitment of a person who is not sexually dangerous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e see no reason why the public interest in committing sexually dangerous persons to the care of the treatment center must be thwarted by the fact that one who is sexually dangerous also happens to be incompetent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the defendant's interest must, with appropriate safeguards, yield to the Commonwealth's paramount interest in protecting its citizens,”
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.