Commonwealth v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Harrington · Commonwealth v. Appleby · Commonwealth v. Pike · Commonwealth v. Berry · Commonwealth v. Walker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]olding knives typically are not regarded as dangerous weapons, at least while unopened.”
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.