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← 73 MASSAPPCT 245 - Commonwealth v. Armstrong

Commonwealth v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

2 district · 13 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 101

Relies on Huntington v. Attrill · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Christopher Strassheim v. Milton Daily · In re Montgomery · Commonwealth v. Helfant

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

  1. “Actual force was also present . . . where the defendant pulled the victim's legs apart and positioned himself against her”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the historical and contextual relationship between the victim and the defendant”
    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.