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← 58 MASSAPPCT 387 - Commonwealth v. Kopsala

Commonwealth v. Kopsala’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

2 district · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Commonwealth v. Cundriff · Ciummei v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Mamay · Commonwealth v. Sanchez

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

  1. “pulled up the victim's shirt, exposing her breasts, unbuttoned her jeans and pulled them off, and removed her panties”
    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.