Commonwealth v. LESKOVIC’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2011
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In Leskovic, testimony by witnesses stating that appellants had sold them capsules called 'Christmas trees, evidence that the description by a witness matched the description of a particular barbiturate and chemical analysis of a witnesses' blood which revealed a quantity of barbiturate in his bloodstream was enough. In the instant case, labels on many of the bottles, some of which were unopened, identified the drugs contained therein as being controlled substances. Because these labeled bottles were unopened, and because only four minutes had elapsed between the burglary and apprehension, the fact finder could reasonably infer that these bottles still contained the drugs which were indicated on the labels. Therefore, there was sufficient evidence to support the conviction for possession of controlled substances with intent to deliver."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. State
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.