Commonwealth v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Colon-Cruz (1990), Commonwealth v. Lao (2005)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 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 Carter v. Kentucky · Ross v. Massachusetts · Ciummei v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Sanders · Commonwealth v. Ross
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To lawfully ‘carry’ a firearm within the Commonwealth ... a person must either obtain a license to do so under G.L. c. 140, § 131, or be exempt from the normal licensing requirements under G.L. c. 140, §§ 129C, 131F, or 131G....” There is one other exemption. A person who obtains a “firearm identification card” under G.L. c. 140, § 129B, allowing him or her to possess a firearm legally, may carry a firearm within his or her residence or place of business without violating the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a motion to have jurors asked about racial prejudice should usually be granted.”
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.