Commonwealth v. Eberhart’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 10 district · 23 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · District of Columbia v. Heller · Begay v. United States · McDonald v. City of Chicago
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny touching 'with such violence that bodily harm is likely to result.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“encompasses three common law crimes: harmful battery, reckless battery, and offensive battery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Harmful battery is "[a]ny touching 'with such violence that bodily harm is likely to result'...." Reckless battery is a "wilful, wanton and reckless act which results in personal injury to another." Offensive battery occurs when "the defendant, without justification or excuse, intentionally touched the victim, and ... the touching, however slight, occurred without the victim's consent."”
2 later decisions 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.