Commonwealth v. Marrero’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2022
24 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 Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Kelley · Commonwealth v. Appleby · Commonwealth v. Farrell · Commonwealth v. Tarrant
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Footwear, such as a shoe, when used to kick, can be a dangerous weapon.... The essential question, when an object which is not dangerous per se is alleged to be a dangerous weapon, is whether the object, as used by the defendant, is capable of producing serious bodily harm_ [Tjhere was sufficient evidence in the victim’s testimony detailing the kicking and stomping administered by the defendant, and in the nature of his injuries, including the evidence that his chest bore the mark of “footprints,” for the jury to find ... that the defendant had worn boots and that the boots had been used as a dangerous weapon.... (To the extent that it is argued that there should have been a required finding of not guilty on the theory that sneakers had been the weapon, the motion was also properly denied for the reasons discussed above.)”
3 later decisions 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.