7 Mass. App. Ct. 9 - Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2018
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Kelley · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Novicki · 4 Mass. App. Ct. 606 - Commonwealth v. Nichols · 6 Mass. App. Ct. 653 - Commonwealth v. Cohen
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ordinary pickpocket is guilty of larceny from the person, rather than robbery, because there is neither violence nor intimidation involved in the perpetration of the theft. The force used to bring about the theft is only that amount of force needed to lift and remove the property and is not of the class of violence essential to robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fitz“Pickpocketing characteristically involves stealth and a lack of awareness of the taking by the victim.”
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.