Commonwealth v. Layton’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Manley (1985), State v. Horne (1989)
61 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 Commonwealth v. Bartholomew · 131 Ill. App. 2d 1070 - People v. Halley · 231 Cal. App. 2d 460 - People v. Guyette · People v. Simons · Jarvis v. Commonwealth
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . a malfunctioning assembled firearm or a disassembled firearm”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“No person who has been convicted in this Commonwealth or elsewhere of a crime of violence shall own a firearm, or have one in his possession or under his control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any pistol or revolver with a barrel less than 12 inches, any shotgun with a barrel less than 24 inches, or any rifle with a barrel less than 15 inches.””
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.