Commonwealth v. Sperrazza’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Smith v. Massachusetts (2005), Readco Inc Rdp Xii v. Marine Midland Bank (1996)
22 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. Bartholomew · Commonwealth v. Geraway
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the gun in question was not a weapon with a barrel sixteen inches long or longer.”
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.