Commonwealth v. O'Neil’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
December 2024
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. Grey · Hanlon v. Rollins · Sullivan v. Town of Brookline
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whoever willfully and maliciously engages in a knowing pattern of conduct or series of acts over a period of time directed at a specific person, which seriously alarms that person and would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Typically, stalking behaviors involve obsessional attractions to victims and are not necessarily intended to harm or frighten them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any reasonable person would be greatly alarmed and experience severe emotional distress if subjected to such similar 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.