Commonwealth v. Tirado’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Curtis · Commonwealth v. Pike · Commonwealth v. Carrion · Commonwealth v. Kendrick · Commonwealth v. Berry
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require that the defendant retreat if retreat is reasonable in the circumstances; that is, he must avail himself of all proper means to avoid physical combat before he resorts to the use of force”
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.