Commonwealth v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · District of Columbia v. Heller · McDonald v. City of Chicago · Michigan v. Bryant
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.
““It shall be unlawful to store or keep any firearm ... in any place unless such weapon is secured in a locked container or equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device .... For purposes of this section, such weapon shall not be deemed stored or kept if carried by or under the control of the owner ...” (emphasis supplied).”
4 later decisions 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.