93 Mass. App. Ct. 560 - Commonwealth v. Colon’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2021
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · United States v. Powell · Commonwealth v. Gallant · 30 Mass. App. Ct. 181 - Commonwealth v. Mosby · Commonwealth v. Quinn
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the child was not yet fourteen years old at the time of the offense, (2) the defendant intentionally touched the child without legal justification or excuse, and (3) the touching was indecent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the intentional, unjustified touching of private areas such as the breasts, abdomen, buttocks, thighs, and pubic area ... constitutes an indecent assault and battery.”
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.