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← 54 MASSAPPCT 520 - Commonwealth v. Troy T.

Commonwealth v. Troy T.’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
August 2021
most recently cited

17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2021

17 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Chalifoux · 19 Mass. App. Ct. 424 - Commonwealth v. LaPerle · Commonwealth v. Sholley · Commonwealth v. Robicheau

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““[A] threat may be communicated by a third party to the defendant’s intended victim. In such instances, ... the Commonwealth must prove, among other things, that the defendant intended to communicate the threat to the third party who acts as intermediary. Intent, of course, may be proved by circumstantial evidence.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]n analyzing a putative threat, we eschew a technical parsing of the words used and instead consider the entire context in which a statement is made, including the defendant's actions and demeanor at the time.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “in the context of the actions and demeanor which accompanied them,”
    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.