Commonwealth v. McCreary’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1510 · 18 U.S.C. § 1512
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Inc. v. Blake · Commonwealth v. Gunter · United States v. Segal · United States v. San Martin
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the statute, rather obviously, is to protect witnesses from being bullied or harried so that they do not become reluctant to testify or to give truthful evidence in investigatory or judicial proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Intimidation, according to the cases, is putting a person in fear for the purpose of influencing his or her conduct.”
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.