Commonwealth v. Brzezinski’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pratt (1990), 29 Mass. App. Ct. 613 - Commonwealth v. Arias (1990)
2 district · 130 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 Franks v. Delaware · Roviaro v. United States · United States v. White · Lewis v. United States · Cleveland v. United States
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knowledge coupled with the ability and intention to exercise dominion and control”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“presence, supplemented by other incriminating evidence, 'will serve to tip the scale in favor of sufficiency.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The defendant's retreat into the closet containing cocaine and cocaine paraphernalia allowed an inference of consciousness of guilt”
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.