Commonwealth v. Brum’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Doyle v. Ohio · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Commonwealth v. Mahdi · Commonwealth v. Walden · Commonwealth v. Curtis
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if a victim brandishes a weapon or attacks a defendant, it does not necessarily create sudden combat or reasonable provocation”
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.