Commonwealth v. Raposo’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sterilite Corp. v. Continental Casualty Co. · Hanlon v. Rollins · Caswell v. Licensing Commission for Brockton · Flemings v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board · Commonwealth v. Russ R.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we look to the language of the entire statute, not just a single sentence, and attempt to interpret all of its terms 'harmoniously to effectuate the intent of the Legislature.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we shall not construe a statute . . . to produce absurd results”
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.