Alicea v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2019
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 Richardson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Garcia · Commonwealth v. Pratt · Berry v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Almeida
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e find little support for a finding that the defendant knew of the concealed heroin from ... his reaction when the first trooper showed the package to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“tended to show that [the defendant] knew that there was cause for alarm.”
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.