Commonwealth v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Conefrey · Commonwealth v. Cordle · Commonwealth v. Fickett · 30 Mass. App. Ct. 181 - Commonwealth v. Mosby · Commonwealth v. Molloy
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An indecent assault and battery is essentially an act or series of acts which are fundamentally offensive to contemporary moral values. It is behavior which the common sense of society would regard as immodest, immoral and improper. Thus, in order to prove indecent assault and battery, the Commonwealth must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed an intentional, unprivileged and indecent touching of the victim. It has been held that the intentional, unjustified touching of private areas such as the breasts, abdomen, buttocks, thighs, and pubic area of a female constitutes an indecent assault and battery.”
2 later decisions 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.