Commonwealth v. Maiden’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2021
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Chalifoux · Commonwealth v. Sholley · Commonwealth v. De Vincent · Commonwealth v. Milo M. · 300 F. Supp. 665 - Robinson Ex Rel. Robinson v. Bradley
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law seems to be settled that a threat need not cause actual fear or apprehension in the victim. The test is an objective one: whether the threat by its content in the circumstances was such as would cause the target of the threat to fear that the threatened crime or injury might be inflicted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a threat requires 'communication' of the threat in the sense that it must be uttered, not idly, but to the target, to one who the defendant intends to pass it on to the target, or to one who the defendant should know will probably pass it on to the target”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the person making the threat either communicated it to the person targeted or intended that it be communicated to the person targeted.”
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.