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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 10 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Commonwealth v. Melton.

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1 Commonwealth v. Melton Anchor
mass · 2002
green “under the attempted battery theory, the commonwealth must prove that the defendant intended to commit a battery, took some overt step toward accomplishing that intended battery, and came reasonably close to doing so.” 4
2 Commonwealth v. Porro
mass · 2010
green “a conviction of assault under a theory of threatened battery requires the prosecution to prove that the defendant engaged in conduct that a reasonable person would recognize to be threatening, that the defendant intended to place the victim in fear of an imminent battery, and th…” 3
3 Commonwealth v. Melton
mass · 2002
green “intended to commit a battery, took some overt step toward accomplishing that intended battery, and came reasonably close to doing so.” 3

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