Commonwealth v. Oliveira’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Cunneen · Commonwealth v. Sellon · Commonwealth v. Gould · Commonwealth v. Gunter · Commonwealth v. Owens
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, you are permitted to infer that a person who intentionally uses a dangerous weapon on another person is acting with malice. A dangerous weapon is an item which is capable of causing serious injury or death. I instruct * you as a matter of law, the knife is a dangerous weapon.”
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.