Smith v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Bryan v. United States · O'Dell v. Commonwealth · Viney v. Com. · Halifax Corp. v. First Union National Bank · United States v. Hayden
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statutory terms are plain and unambiguous, we apply them according to their plain meaning without resorting to rules of statutory construction.”
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.