Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
April 2016
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · United States v. Agurs · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Commonwealth v. Freeman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any evidence that the gun had been fired at any time, much less at the time of the offense”
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.