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← 67 MASSAPPCT 556 - Commonwealth v. Mitchell

Commonwealth v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester · State v. Tippett · Sullivan v. Town of Brookline · Commonwealth v. Galvin · Commonwealth v. Claudio

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.

  1. “touched the victim without having any right or excuse to do so and that the [juvenile's] touching of the victim was intentional.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “erroneous instructions to the jury on a contested element of the crime charged did create a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice”
    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.