Commonwealth v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Appleby · Commonwealth v. Burke · Adamowicz v. Town of Ipswich
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Wjhoever, when arrested upon a warrant for an alleged crime, or when arrested while committing a breach or disturbance of the public peace, is armed with or has on his person ... a billy or other dangerous weapon other than those herein mentioned . . . shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two and one-half years nor more than five years in the state prison, or for not less than six months nor more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction.””
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.