Commonwealth v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2018
2 district · 15 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. Kingsbury · Commonwealth v. Marrone · Commonwealth v. Whynaught · Commonwealth v. Clinton · 27 Mass. App. Ct. 762 - Commonwealth v. Green
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.
““(a) Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate; “(b) Any salt, compound, isomer, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in clause (a), but not including the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium; “(c) Opium poppy and poppy straw; “(d) Coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of coca leaves, and any salt, compound, isomer, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances, but not including decocainized coca leaves or extractions or coca leaves which do not contain cocaine or ecgonine.””
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.