Bach v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2004
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. California · New York v. Ferber · Commonwealth v. Sawhill · Trowel v. Commonwealth · Payne v. Commonwealth
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]cts of masturbation, homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality, sexual intercourse, or deviant sexual intercourse, actual or simulated,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'Obscene' means the predominate appeal of the matter taken as a whole is to a prurient interest in sexual conduct involving minors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greene v. Reeves“(4) "Sexual conduct by a minor" means: ... (b) Physical contact with, or obscene exhibition of the genitals; ...”
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.