Commonwealth v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Anthony v. United States · Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc. v. Blankenship · 126 S. Ct. 2916 - Credit Suisse First Boston Ltd. v. Billing · In re Clements
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever commits said crime while being armed with a firearm, shotgun, rifle, machine-gun, or assault weapon shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 20 years. Said sentence shall not be reduced to less than ten years nor shall the person convicted be eligible for probation, parole, furlough, work release or receive any deduction from his sentence for good conduct. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hill
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.