Commonwealth v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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

1. “Had the Commonwealth drawn its indictment to allege the crime of armed robbery with a dangerous weapon, the defendant would properly have been found guilty of armed robbery because the BB gun in this case was a dangerous weapon, which under our case law includes a weapon that appears to be a firearm, even if not actually a firearm”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Prado

2. “while being armed with a dangerous weapon.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1103 - Commonwealth v. Lamb