Commonwealth v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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.

1. ““It must not be overlooked that the offense charged is the possession of an illicit still. ‘Possession’ means owning, or having a thing in one’s power, and one who does not own, or exercise any dominion over, a still, but merely sells to another supplies for its construction and operation, is not in possession of the still, and is therefore not an accomplice of one who owns and exercises exclusive control over the still.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fox v. Commonwealth