Commonwealth v. Starkus’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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

1. “"Juvenile and adult court probation records, psychiatric and psychological records and reports of the person named in the petition , including the report of any qualified examiner, as defined in section 1, and filed under this chapter, police reports relating to such person's prior sexual offenses, incident reports arising out of such person's incarceration or custody, oral or written statements prepared for and to be offered at the trial by the victims of the person who is the subject of the petition and any other evidence tending to show that such person is or is not a sexually dangerous person shall be admissible at the trial if such written information has been provided to opposing counsel reasonably in advance of trial" (emphasis supplied).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. COMMONWEALTH v. GEORGE MACKIE. · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 715 - Commonwealth v. Dinardo

2. “the sexually dangerous persons statute makes no reference to [the DSM-IV], nor does it set forth any requirement that the statutory definition of mental abnormality be limited to the abnormalities outlined in the DSM-IV. Cf. Doe, Sex Offender Registry Bd. No. 1211 v. Sex Offender Registry Bd., 447 Mass. 750 , 765 n.13 (2006) ('[p]edophilia is a psychiatric disorder, not a legal classification').”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 87 Mass. App. Ct. 162 - Souza

3. “a congenital or acquired condition of a person that affects the emotional or volitional capacity of the person in a manner that predisposes that person to the commission of criminal sexual acts to a degree that makes the person a menace to the health and safety of other persons.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 477 - Commonwealth v. Bradshaw