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← 73 MASSAPPCT 571 - Commonwealth v. Medeiros

Commonwealth v. Medeiros’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2015
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Powell · Dunn v. United States · United States v. Thomas · United States v. Valles-Valencia · United States v. Andrews

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

  1. ““Whoever has sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with a person, and compels such person to submit by force and against his will, or compels such person to submit by threat of bodily injury and if . . . such sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse . . . is committed by a joint enterprise . . . shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years.””
    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.