Commonwealth v. Arce’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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

1. “"all places where the sex offender lives, abides, lodges, or resides for a period of 14 or more days in the aggregate during any calendar year and which is not a sex offender's primary address; or a place where a sex offender routinely lives, abides, lodges, or resides for a period of 4 or more consecutive or nonconsecutive days in any month and which is not a sex offender's permanent address, including any out-of-state address."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1130 - Commonwealth v. Schaff · 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1118 - Commonwealth v. Burdulis

2. “all places where a sex offender lives, abides, lodges, or resides for a period of 14 or more days in the aggregate during any calendar year and which is not a sex offender's primary address.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1130 - Commonwealth v. Schaff

3. “A defendant who is required to register as a sex offender fails to do so if he knowingly fails to provide notice of a change of address, or knowingly provides false information.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1130 - Commonwealth v. Schaff