Commonwealth v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. Vanderpool · Commonwealth v. Catalina · 70 Misc. 2d 528 - People v. Cruciani
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hrusting a recently used hypodermic needle at [an officer] involved a high degree of likelihood that substantial harm would result to [the officer]”
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.