Commonwealth v. Gomes’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Bradshaw · Commonwealth v. Vinnie · Commonwealth v. Silanskas · Commonwealth v. LaCava
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile carrying a loaded handgun, the defendant started a fight with the victim and then pulled out a gun. The defendant pushed the victim and shouted obscenities at him while others were imploring him to put the gun away [including one who threw a set of candlesticks at him]. Two witnesses testified that they saw the defendant shoot the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gomes v. Brady
How this case has been treated — in progress
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