Commonwealth v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2021
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Bailey v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Delgado · United States v. Lawrence · United States v. Wahl
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.
“that drug offenses frequently involve drug dealers being armed and that, in many cases, shootings and killings occur when a drug dealer is confronted by police, when a drug deal goes 'bad,' or when others try to steal the drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he absence of the word 'mandatory' in the relevant language . . . of § 18B . . . leads us to reject the Commonwealth's contention that the statute requires a mandatory minimum State prison sentence of five years”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whoever [possesses a firearm during the commission of a felony] . . . shall, in addition to the penalty for such offense, be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than five years”
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.