Commonwealth v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2018
13 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. Forde · DeJoinville v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Figueroa · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that there were other persons present at the scene, unsupported by evidence tending to suggest that someone other than the defendant was operating the [vehicle], cannot serve to undermine the probative value of the corroborative evidence previously discussed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n satisfying [the Latimore ] test, the Commonwealth may rely on reasonable inferences drawn from circumstantial evidence.”
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.