Commonwealth v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Campbell · Connors v. Boland · Commonwealth v. Dinkins · 14 Mass. App. Ct. 268 - Commonwealth v. Geisler
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) operat[ion of] a motor vehicle, (2) upon a public way, (3) ... negligently so that the lives or safety of the public might be endangered.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he statute only requires proof that the lives or safety of the public might be endangered, not that they were endangered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]xcessive speed, by itself, does not mandate such a finding, but it can be considered in combination with other evidence, in determining whether the defendant's operation constituted negligent operation.”
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.