Commonwealth v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Cabell v. Markham · 23 Cal. 4th 322 - People v. Rubalcava · Commonwealth v. Va Meng Joe
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.
““Whoever . . . carries on his person . . . any stiletto, dagger or a device or case which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any mechanism, dirk knife, any knife having a double-edged blade, or a switch knife, or any knife having an automatic spring release device by which the blade is released from the handle, having a blade of over one and one-half inches . . . shall be punished by imprisonment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“erroneous instructions to the jury on a contested element of the crime charged did create a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice”
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.