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.
“the defendant intentionally engaged in menacing conduct that reasonably caused the victim to fear an imminent battery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“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.