Commonwealth v. Osborne’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2011
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Atencio · Commonwealth v. Vellucci · Commonwealth v. Morrissey · 3 Mass. App. Ct. 308 - Commonwealth v. Perry
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue before us is the meaning of the word “carrying” .... [T]he “idea conveyed by the statute is that of movement,” and ... “temporary possession [of a firearm] during the actual shooting would not be sufficient under the statute.... ” The police found the defendant in the hallway, but the gun was found in the defendant’s bedroom. There was no evidence from which to infer that the defendant had carried it outside his room. The only legitimate inference is that the defendant had picked up the gun and held it while he fired it, but such temporary possession was not sufficient for conviction of unlawfully carrying a firearm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The temporary possession of the revolver shown by the defendants during the game is not a carrying of a firearm on the person within the meaning of [the statute], as amended. The idea conveyed by the statute is that of movement, “carries on his person or under his control in a vehicle.””
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.