Commonwealth v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009), Commonwealth v. Semedo (2010)
4 federal appellate · 21 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Crawford v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States
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.
“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“It is for the jury to make a determination of credibility, Commonwealth v. Cannon , 449 Mass. 462 , 469 n.17, 869 N.E.2d 594 (2007), and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“jury could reasonably infer that the defendant ... knew that the victim kept both money and illegal drugs in his apartment”
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.