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← 54 MASSAPPCT 1 - Commonwealth v. Gomes

Commonwealth v. Gomes’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Alphas · Commonwealth v. Fitzgerald · Commonwealth v. Jones · United States v. Godel

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.

  1. “The assailant drove the complainants to a remote area ..., displayed a stun gun, and forced them to have sex with him”
    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.