Commonwealth v. Dube’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]e have uniformly and unequivocally held we have no power to alter, overrule or decline to follow the holding of cases the Supreme Judicial Court has decided.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 581 - Commonwealth v. Leoner-Aguirre · 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1116 - Commonwealth v. Rodriguez

2. “condition[s] a [commitment] petition's progress on the Commonwealth's ability to provide, with increasing degrees of rigor, evidence that the defendant is sexually dangerous.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Chapman

3. “dismissal of the petition is the appropriate remedy when the Commonwealth's evidence ... is demonstrably insufficient to allow it to proceed to the succeeding step.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Chapman