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← 79 MASSAPPCT 239 - Commonwealth v. McCollum

Commonwealth v. McCollum’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

2 district · 7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Harris v. New York · Maryland v. Buie · Rock v. Arkansas · District of Columbia v. Heller

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.

  1. “The presence of ammunition, without direct evidence that a weapon's firing mechanism is functioning, is insufficient [to prove operability].”
    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.