Commonwealth v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Amirault · 22 Mass. App. Ct. 10 - Commonwealth v. Miranda · Commonwealth v. Merola · Commonwealth v. Thomas · Commonwealth v. Kwiatkowski
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever (1) willfully and maliciously engages in a knowing pattern of conduct or series of acts over a period of time directed at a specific person which seriously alarms or annoys that person and would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, and (2) makes a threat with the intent to place the person in imminent fear of death or bodily injury, shall be guilty of the crime of stalking. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“erroneous instructions to the jury on a contested element of the crime charged did create a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice”
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.