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← 90 Mass. App. Ct. 703 - Commonwealth v. Dancy

90 Mass. App. Ct. 703 - Commonwealth v. Dancy’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bronstein v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Commonwealth v. Gonzalez · Commonwealth v. Loadholt · Commonwealth v. Loadholt · Commonwealth v. Williamson

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.

  1. “"Whoever violates paragraph ( a ) or paragraph ( c ), by means of a loaded firearm, loaded sawed off shotgun or loaded machine gun shall be further punished by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than [two and one-half] years, which sentence shall begin from and after the expiration of the sentence for the violation of paragraph ( a ) or paragraph ( c )."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “before the penalty enhancement provision”
    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.