Commonwealth v. Bigelow’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
August 2021
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 115
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Connick v. Myers · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · United States v. Salerno · Ward v. Rock Against Racism
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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 that person and would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In considering the First Amendment's protective reach, critical to the examination is the context and content of the speech at issue”
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.