32 Mass. App. Ct. 355 - Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2021
13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Gullick · Commonwealth v. Ortiz · Commonwealth v. Egerton · 27 Mass. App. Ct. 41 - Commonwealth v. Rivera · Commonwealth v. Bowler
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to simplify proof of chemical analyses performed routinely and accurately by a public agency and `to reduce court delays and the inconvenience of having busy public servants called as witnesses'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no persuasive reason to preclude a trial judge from relying on a facsimile signature of a notary public”
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.