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← 413 Mass. 647 - Commonwealth v. Roucoulet

Commonwealth v. Roucoulet’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

53
cited by 53 later decisions
3
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 783 - State v. McGee (1993), Commonwealth v. Chavis (1993)

53 state decisions

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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

Applies 21 U.S.C. § 860 (§ 419 of the Controlled Substances Act)

Relies on Clampitt v. Interinsurance Exchange · Simon v. Solomon · United States v. Wake · State v. Ivory · 28 Mass. App. Ct. 23 - Commonwealth v. Tata

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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Any person who violates [§§ 32, 32A, 32B, 32C, 32D, 32E, 32F, or 321], while in or on, or within one thousand feet of the real property comprising a public . . . elementary . . . school whether or not in session, . . . shall be punished. . . . “Lack of knowledge of school boundaries shall not be a defense to any person who violates the provisions of this section.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “while in or on, or within one thousand feet of the real property comprising a public or private elementary, vocational or secondary school . . . shall be punished by”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “is a guide for resolving ambiguity, rather than a rigid requirement that we interpret each statute in the manner most favorable to defendants.”
    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.