Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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

1. “has the same opportunity as the principal to make judgments about age from the child’s appearance and other circumstances attending the encounter between the child and the principal.” Id. at 485 . In doing so, the court recognized that joint venturer liability is different from aiding and abetting liability found in the federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2 , in part because it does not distinguish between”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Encarnación-Ruiz

2. “[U]nder [ G. L. c. 265, § 26C ], the offense is complete when the prohibited 'enticement' occurs, whether or not a violation of the underlying statutes ever takes place”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1119 - Commonwealth v. Gould

3. “the crime with which the defendant was charged was rape of a child by force, as to which rape of a child is a lesser included offense”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. J.H. v. Commonwealth