Commonwealth v. Paiva’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2010
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Nobles · Commonwealth v. Mandeville · Commonwealth v. Chappee · Chappee v. Vose · Commonwealth v. Costa
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a pistol, revolver or other weapon of any description, loaded or unloaded, from which a shot or bullet can be discharged and of which the length of the barrel or barrels is less than 16 inches or 18 inches in the case of a shotgun as originally manufactured.””
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.