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← 70 MASSAPPCT 314 - Commonwealth v. Davis

Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Richards · Commonwealth v. Novicki · Commonwealth v. White · Commonwealth v. Musgrave

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

  1. “objectively menacing conduct by the defendant, ... undertaken with the intent to put [the victim] in fear for the purpose of stealing,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “resulted in reasonable fear or apprehension on [the victim's] part and thereby facilitated the theft.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “by force and violence, or by assault and putting in fear.”
    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.