Commonwealth v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2012
most recently cited
2 district · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kolender v. Lawson · Kemp v. Potts · Commonwealth v. Gallant · Commonwealth v. a Juvenile · Dickerson v. Attorney General
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no constitutional protection granted to the possession of illegal drugs with intent to distribute, and the defendant obviously cannot make any argument tying his conduct to any protected form of expression or conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Spencer
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.