Commonwealth v. Vickers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]t is well-recognized in Massachusetts and elsewhere that taking goods beyond a store's premises is not a necessary precondition to a larceny conviction; the element of asportation may be satisfied if the defendant's behavior establishes that he or she removed the goods from the store's control to his or her own”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1101 - Commonwealth v. Germaini · 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1121 - Commonwealth v. Duncan

2. “(1) the unlawful taking and (2) carrying away (asportation) (3) of personal property of another (4) with the specific intent to deprive the person of the property permanently.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1121 - Commonwealth v. Duncan · 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1107 - Commonwealth v. Trott

3. “did so with an intent that was inconsistent with purchasing the goods and had transferred control to [himself].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1101 - Commonwealth v. Germaini