Commonwealth v. Tirella’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
6
states following
September 2013
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tot v. United States · Cree v. Goldstein · United States v. Romano · Manley v. State of Georgia · Commonwealth v. Fancy
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.
“* * * `whoever is in the company of a person, knowing that said person is illegally in possession of a narcotic drug * * *.'”
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.