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← 83 MASSAPPCT 202 - Commonwealth v. Valentin V.

Commonwealth v. Valentin V.’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 2021
most recently cited

2 district · 6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. O'DELL · Insurance Rating Board v. Commissioner of Insurance · Commonwealth v. Perez · Commonwealth v. Hamilton · Commonwealth v. Wynton W.

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. “[A] defendant may act 'directly or indirectly,' and the focus here ... is on the defendant's actions and intentions, not the victim's reaction”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he juvenile's argument that his . . . remarks should be viewed [as venting frustration] is one appropriately directed to the fact finder at trial, rather than a proper basis for a pretrial motion to dismiss.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “upon the communication of the threat to the intermediary.”
    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.