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← 476 MASS 469 - Commonwealth v. Accime

Commonwealth v. Accime’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Mickens v. Taylor · Alegata v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Commonwealth v. a Juvenile

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. “requires proof that a person, 'with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof,' engaged in 'fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior' or created 'a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “defendant may be entitled to a refund of any fine he may have paid”
    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.