Commonwealth v. Furst’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2021
10 state decisions
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. Flagg · Commonwealth v. Troy T. · Commonwealth v. Barsell
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For such a ... violation to occur, such words must first be communicated in some manner to the defendant's intended victim, directly or through an intermediary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[m]enacing words alone, even those that express a threat to commit a crime, do not constitute an offense under G. L. c. 275, § 2.”
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.