Commonwealth v. Mahar’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Delgado · Commonwealth v. Sellon · Commonwealth v. Appleby · Commonwealth v. Martino
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]urported consent [to entry] cannot be considered legally significant unless the occupant has been made aware that the person at the door is armed with a dangerous weapon and is about to commit an assault once inside.”
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.