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← 460 MASS 723 - Commonwealth v. Loadholt

Commonwealth v. Loadholt’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

6 district · 28 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on District of Columbia v. Heller · United States v. Cruikshank · McDonald v. City of Chicago · Blixt v. Blixt · Commonwealth v. Vasquez

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the requirement of licensing before one may possess a firearm or ammunition does not by itself render the licensing statute unconstitutional on its face.”
    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.