Commonwealth v. Ponds’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. v. Dowling (1985), State v. Gantt (1986)
30 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. Rose · Commonwealth v. Layton · 42 Cal. App. 3d 988 - People v. Favalora · People v. Simons · In Re Estate of Sedmak
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a sawed-off shotgun is at a given time inoperable does not discount the danger which the legislature intended to prevent. The mere possession of an item identifiable as a sawed-off shotgun, even though inoperable is still an ominous presence, and has no place nor possible use in the community and should be prohibited.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`implement for the infliction of serious bodily injury which serves no common lawful purpose' shall not be allowed to exist in our society.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a defense under this section for the defendant to prove by a preponderance of evidence that he possessed or dealt with the weapon solely as a curio or in a dramatic performance, or that he possessed it briefly in consequence of having found it or taken it from an aggressor, or under circumstances similarly negativing any intent or likelihood that the weapon would be used unlawfully.”
2 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.