Commonwealth v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
November 2022
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Weems v. United States · Commonwealth v. Jackson · Attorney General v. School Committee of Essex · State v. Ivory · Commonwealth v. Roucoulet
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be punished by imprisonment in a [S]tate prison for not less than two and one-half years nor more than ten years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we do not adhere ... to a literal reading of a statute if doing so would yield an 'absurd' or 'illogical' result”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finn v. Commonwealth“Our primary duty in interpreting a statute is 'to effectuate the intent of the Legislature in enacting it.'”
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.