80 Mass. App. Ct. 271 - Commonwealth v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
August 2022
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · District of Columbia v. Heller · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Florida v. JL · McDonald v. City of Chicago
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he reliability of citizen informants who are identifiable, but may not have been identified, is deserving of greater consideration than that of truly anonymous sources.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“being present in or on his residence or place of business”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a pistol, revolver or other weapon of any description”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.