Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 district · 47 state decisions

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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Whoever knowingly enters the dwelling place of another knowing or having reason to know that one or more persons are present within or knowingly enters the dwelling place of another and remains in such dwelling place knowing or having reason to know that one or more persons are present within while armed with a dangerous weapon, uses force or threatens the imminent use of force upon any person within such dwelling place whether or not injury occurs, or intentionally causes any injury to any person within such dwelling place shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for Ufe or for any term of not less than twenty years.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Zapata

2. ““Whoever commits said crime [armed home invasion] while being armed with a firearm, shotgun, rifle, machine-gun, or assault weapon shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 20 years. Said sentence shall not be reduced to less than ten years nor shall the person convicted be eligible for probation, parole, furlough, work release or receive -any deduction from his sentence for good conduct . . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Burton

3. “not less than two and one-half years nor more than ten years,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Rodriguez