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Vega v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Ornelas v. United States · Maryland v. Pringle · Adcock v. Commonwealth · Avery v. Commonwealth · Coleman v. Commonwealth

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

  1. “when the weapon is ‘on the person or so connected or annexed to the person that the weapon is carried along as the person moves.’ ” Id. (quoting Avery, 3 S.W.2d at 626 ). . Holly states that he was initially told that he was fired for”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[a] person is guilty of carrying a concealed weapon when he or she carries concealed a firearm or other deadly weapon on or about his or her person.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “observed by persons making ordinary contact with him in associations such as are common in the everyday walks of life.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.