Commonwealth v. Marzilli’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2024
17 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. Burke · Commonwealth v. Gunter · Commonwealth v. Ortiz · Commonwealth v. Hebert · 30 Mass. App. Ct. 181 - Commonwealth v. Mosby
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intentional, unprivileged and indecent touching of the victim,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whoever commits an indecent assault and battery on a person who has attained age fourteen shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years, or by imprisonment for not more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Thus, to prove the intent element, the Commonwealth must prove that the defendant intended . . . to commit an indecent or offensive touching of the complainant without her consent.”
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.