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.
“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“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.