Commonwealth v. Vazquez’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2020
19 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 Branzburg v. Hayes · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Randolph · Commonwealth v. King
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.
“[A]n indecent assault and battery is essentially an act or series of acts [that] are fundamentally offensive to contemporary moral values ... [I]t is behavior [that] the common sense of society would regard as immodest, immoral and improper ... Thus, in order to prove indecent assault and battery, the Commonwealth must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed an intentional, unprivileged and indecent touching of the victim. It has been held that the intentional, unjustified touching of private areas such as the breasts, abdomen, buttocks, thighs, and pubic area of a female constitutes an indecent assault and battery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he touching in question need not be restricted to the list of anatomical parts and areas referred to in Commonwealth v. Mosby , [30 Mass. App. Ct. at] 184.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen evaluating evidence of alleged indecent behavior, we consider all of the attendant circumstances.”
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.