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← 453 MASS 535 - Commonwealth v. Gallant

Commonwealth v. Gallant’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Powell · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. O'DELL · Commonwealth v. Storey

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “general terms which follow specific ones to matters similar to those specified.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. ““Whoever, directly or indirectly, willfully (a) threatens . . . or (c) . . . intimidates or harasses another person who is: . . . (iii) a . . . probation officer . . . with the intent to impede, obstruct, delay, harm, punish or otherwise interfere thereby with a criminal investigation, grand jury proceeding, trial or other criminal proceeding of any type shall be punished . . . .””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the same type of specific evidence of each element of the offense as would be needed to support a conviction.”
    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.