Commonwealth v. Barbosa’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Commonwealth v. Gonsalves · Commonwealth v. Garcia · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Torres
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From both [the defendant's] proximity to the gun and his effort to conceal it, the [fact finder] could infer that [the defendant] was exercising dominion and control over the gun.”
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.