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← 68 MASSAPPCT 561 - Commonwealth v. Mahoney

Commonwealth v. Mahoney’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2015
most recently cited

2 district · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Jones

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Traditional larceny requires that the defendant engage in the ‘unlawful taking and carrying away of the personal property of another with the specific intent to deprive the person of the property permanently.’ ” Id. 29 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Whoever ... unlawfully, and with intent to steal or embezzle, converts ... the property of another ... shall be guilty of larceny.” Section 30(2) defines”
    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.