Barnes v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. Courchesne (2003), Buchanan v. Commonwealth (1989)
3 federal appellate · 55 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 Payton v. New York · Rakas v. Illinois · McCleskey v. Kemp · Steagald v. United States · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had reason to believe that Barnes was staying in [his stepfather's] apartment and was actually present, and the arrest warrants [for Barnes] gave them the limited authority to enter the apartment, search for the person described in the warrants, and arrest him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that a killing inflicted by multiple gunshot wounds may constitute an 'aggravated battery' ... where there is an appreciable lapse of time between the first shot and the last, and where death does not result instantaneously from the first”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order for you to find that there is a ‘probability’ that Roy Smith would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing serious threat to society you must find that there is a likelihood substantially greater than a mere possibility that he would commit such acts in the future.”
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.