Commonwealth v. Blache’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2021
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. King · Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista · Commonwealth v. Sherry
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.
“Commonwealth must prove that the defendant knew or reasonably should have known that the complainant's condition rendered her incapable of consenting”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the only force required for proof of the crime is 'such force as was necessary to accomplish' the act of intercourse -- that is, only the force necessary to effect penetration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the possibility of a defendant's reasonable mistake about the complainant's consent could increase, creating the potential for injustice.”
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.