Commonwealth v. Mulvey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 6 state decisions

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

1. “A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he ... engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior; or ... creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 478 F. Supp. 2d 126 - LaFrenier v. Kinirey

2. “behavior that has an impact only upon members of the police force is significantly different from that affecting other citizens in [part because] it is an unfortunate but inherent part of a police officer's job to be in the presence of distraught individuals”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Maguire

3. “people could have seen or heard the defendant from any place of public access, such as a nearby sidewalk, publicly used path or road, shopping area or other neighborhood facility.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1116 - Commonwealth v. Jensen