Commonwealth v. Reyes’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · District of Columbia v. Heller · Smith v. Goguen · United States Civil Service Commission v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers · 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“define the criminal offense [1] with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and [2] in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“law is not vague if its meaning is ascertainable by reference to similar or related statutes, and 'even a vague statute may be made constitutionally definite by giving it a reasonable construction.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Proscribed conduct, however, is not always capable of precise legal definition.”
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.