Commonwealth v. Waller’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
26 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · District of Columbia v. Heller · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · Commonwealth v. Pike · Commonwealth v. Merola
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inferences that support a conviction 'need only be reasonable and possible; [they] need not be necessary or inescapable.'”
15 later decisions 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.