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← 55 MASSAPPCT 563 - Commonwealth v. Castillo

Commonwealth v. Castillo’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Gallant · Commonwealth v. Mamay · Commonwealth v. Conefrey · Commonwealth v. Comtois

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

  1. “the intentional, unjustified touching of private areas such as the breasts, abdomen, buttocks, thighs, and pubic area ... constitutes an indecent assault and battery.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “fundamentally offensive to contemporary moral values ... which the common sense of society would regard as immodest, immoral, and improper.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “for a person of ordinary intelligence to know what is prohibited”
    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.