Cochran v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Mendenhall · California v. Hodari D. · Lewis v. Gober · In re Disbarment of Passman · Husske v. Commonwealth
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Under these circumstances, the construction given to the statute is presumed to be sanctioned by the legislature and therefore becomes obligatory upon the courts.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.