Commonwealth v. Gorman’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States · Commonwealth v. Stoute · Commonwealth v. Isaiah I.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n light of the failure to give a knowledge-of-the-gun instruction on the home invasion, armed assault in a dwelling, and assault by means of a dangerous weapon charges, the judge's careful explanation that the jury had to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew his coventurer possessed a firearm before they could convict him of the charge of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony ... could only have been taken to imply that no such requirement existed for the other three offenses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that they were required to find, as an element of each of the offenses for which he was convicted, that the defendant knew of the gun”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did not adequately inform the jury of the element of each offense that the defendant have knowledge of the gun”
1 later decision 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.