Commonwealth v. Colon’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Begay v. United States · James v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]ny crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year . . . that: (i) has as an element the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force or a deadly weapon against the person of another; (ii) is burglary, extortion, arson or kidnapping; (iii) involves the use of explosives; or (iv) otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious risk of physical injury to another.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“generally requires a court to look only to the fact of conviction and the statutory definition of the prior offense. Commonwealth v. Colon , 81 Mass. App. Ct. 8 , 15, 958 N.E.2d 56 (2011). This approach has been applied when interpreting the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Commonwealth need not retry the prior conviction ...; the Commonwealth need only prove which statutory or common-law definition was the basis of the prior conviction.”
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.