Commonwealth v. Militello’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Freeman · O'Connor v. Steeves · Commonwealth v. Henson
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.
“taken as a whole it (1) appeals to the prurient interest of the average person applying the contemporary standards of the county where the offense was committed; (2) depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and (3) lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the witness immediately reported the incident.”
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.