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← 57 MASSAPPCT 47 - Commonwealth v. Chambers

Commonwealth v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

4 district · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Delgado · Commonwealth v. Richards · Commonwealth v. Gordon · Commonwealth v. Slaney

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.

  1. “the defendant intentionally engaged in menacing conduct that reasonably caused the victim to fear an imminent battery.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The criminal law is designed primarily to preserve the public peace.”
    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.