Commonwealth v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Velasquez (1999), Commonwealth v. Boria (2003)
4 district · 23 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. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Fancy · Commonwealth v. Toney · Commonwealth v. Montanez · United States v. Holland
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the peril ... that the [constructive possession] doctrine may be used in narcotics prosecutions as support for preexisting suspicions rather than as an abstraction fostering fair analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[The] type of inculpatory evidence, rather than the precise location of the drugs, ... is most significant to a sufficiency analysis in a constructive possession case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.