Commonwealth v. Sargent’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

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.

1. “a congenital or acquired condition of a person that affects the emotional or volitional capacity of the person in a manner that predisposes that person to the commission of criminal sexual acts to a degree that makes the person a menace to the health and safety of other persons.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Crowder

2. “must show that such behavior ‘has likely deprived the defendant of an otherwise available, substantial ground of defence.' ” Commonwealth v. Sargent, 449 Mass. 576 , 870 N.E.2d 602 , 610 (2007) (quoting Saferian, 315 N.E.2d at 883 ). We have concluded that Saferian’s”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Malone v. Clarke

3. “provides a right to counsel to individuals who the Commonwealth seeks to commit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re R.B.