87 Mass. App. Ct. 162 - Souza’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2021
1 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kansas v. Hendricks · Kansas v. Crane · Commonwealth v. Rodriquez · Commonwealth v. Markvart · Hill
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You heard of testimony from Dr. Tomich, a representative of the community access board. The law permits a representative of the community access board to testify in all proceedings like this one, and you may certainly rely upon the testimony of Dr. Tomich. However, you cannot find that the petitioner, Mr. Souza, is sexually dangerous based solely on the testimony of Dr. Tomich. In order for you to find that Mr. Souza is today a sexually dangerous person, you must find support for that determination in the opinion that [sfc] Dr. Kelso, who testified as a qualified examiner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Green“any rational trier of fact could have found, beyond a reasonable doubt, the essential elements of sexual dangerousness as defined by G. L. c. 123A, § 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he law is clear that the lapse of time [since the defendant's last contact sex offense], by itself, is not dispositive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.