75 Mass. App. Ct. 472 - Commonwealth v. Putnam’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Vick · Commonwealth v. Stokes · Commonwealth v. Nolin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]urported consent [to entry] cannot be considered legally significant unless the occupant has been made aware that the person at the door is armed with a dangerous weapon and is about to commit an assault once inside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was armed with a dangerous weapon at the time of entry into a dwelling house.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“You can make this hard or you can make this easy.”
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.