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← 465 MASS 538 - Commonwealth v. Bundy

Commonwealth v. Bundy’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Industrial Finance Corp. v. State Tax Commission · School Comm. of Greenfield v. Greenfield Educ. Ass'n · Commonwealth v. Sands · Commonwealth v. Brown

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

  1. “We cannot interpret statutory language in a vacuum, ignoring the Legislature's purpose in enacting the statute and oblivious to 'the time in which [the language] is used' "). It expressly informs us that the statutory purpose of G. L. c. 272, § 7, is to target "pimps”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The Legislature enacted G. L. c. 272, § 29A, in order 'to protect minors from exploitation'”
    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.