Graves v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Caminetti v. United States · Custis v. United States · Davis v. Michigan Department of the Treasury · Alleyne v. United States · Burlington Northern Railroad v. Oklahoma Tax Commission
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If language is clear and unambiguous, there is no need for construction by the court; the plain meaning and intent of the enactment will be given it. When an enactment is clear and unequivocal, general rules for construction of statutes do not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“shall ... run consecutively with, any punishment received for the commission of the primary felony,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a three-year fixed term of confinement is the only sentence available,”
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.