Ramirez v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
October 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Booker · District of Columbia v. Heller · United States v. James Griggs Raines · McDonald v. City of Chicago · Virginia v. American Booksellers Assn., Inc.
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.
“stun guns, like handguns, are weapons that can injure or kill and, in the wrong hands, can be used for many unlawful or reckless purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Avitabile v. Beach“typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Avitabile v. Beach
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.