Commonwealth v. Marcavage’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ward v. Rock Against Racism · Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence · Freedman v. Maryland · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Sholley
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Police officers are permitted to take reasonable protective measures whenever the public safety is threatened by acts that are dangerous, even if not expressly unlawful,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deluca v. Merner
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.