Commonwealth v. Ruiz’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Pearson v. Callahan · Harris v. West · Hardy v. United States · Stonehill College v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination · Globe Newspaper Co. v. Boston Retirement Board
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing the single justice's determination to deny the Commonwealth's petition brought under G. L. c. 211, § 3, this court looks to whether 'the single justice abused his or her discretion or made a clear error of law.'”
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.