Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2018
2 district · 16 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 19 U.S.C. § 1615 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Watson v. United States · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Caribbean Petroleum Corp. v. Coastal Fuels of Puerto Rico, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the purpose of due process analysis, our standard of review under the cognate provisions of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights usually is comparable to that under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution”); Doe v. Attorney General, 426 Mass. 136 , 144 n. 8, 686 N.E.2d 1007 (Mass.1997) (citation omitted) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the [C]ommonwealth shall have the burden of proving to the court the existence of probable cause to institute the [forfeiture] action, and [the] claimant shall then have the burden * of proving that the property is not forfeitable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is outside the scope of the criminal matter and constitutes a civil proceeding.”
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.