Commonwealth v. Lord’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In re Rivera · Commonwealth v. Appleby · United States v. Robinson · Celotex Corp. v. Edwards · Commonwealth v. Farrell
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.
“dangerous per se because it was designed for the sole purpose of bodily assault or defense and was constructed to inflict serious bodily harm through incapacitation, and because, in these circumstances, the defendant used it in a manner consistent with its design.”
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.