Commonwealth v. Raymond’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Delaney · 14 Mass. App. Ct. 358 - Commonwealth v. Wallace · Commonwealth v. Collier · Commonwealth v. Biancardi · Commonwealth v. Silva
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The policies that are advanced by means of the remedies available under c. 209A do not require that restrained parties be convicted for what would generally be considered innocent activities. To hold otherwise would incorporate into the statute a concept of strict liability, and there is no basis for believing that this was the Legislature's purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“could not reasonably have been expected to know[ ] that the protected person would be present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“left the jury without guidance as to what constituted a violation”
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.