Commonwealth v. Roucoulet’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
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
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.
““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“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“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.