Commonwealth v. Muir’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hanlon v. Rollins · Commonwealth v. Vick · Commonwealth v. Porro · Attorney General v. School Committee of Essex · Commonwealth v. Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship Authority
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 'not being armed' language in the statute merely differentiates it from the enhanced crime of armed robbery, which occurs when the defendant carries out the robbery with a dangerous weapon”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We will not adopt a literal construction of a statute if the consequences of such construction are absurd or unreasonable. We assume the Legislature intended to act reasonably”
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.