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← 443 MASS 521 - Commonwealth v. Constantino

Commonwealth v. Constantino’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
3
states following
January 2023
most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Johnson (2011), Commonwealth v. Disler (2008)

38 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

Relies on Bell v. United States · Ladner v. United States · Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · United States v. Kinsley · Commonwealth v. Rhoades

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

  1. ““Whoever upon any way or in any place to which the public has a right of access, or any place to which members of the public have access as invitees or licensees, operates a motor vehicle recklessly, or operates such a vehicle negligently so that the lives or safety of the public might be endangered . . . shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than two weeks nor more than two years, or both ....’’”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Commonwealth v. LeBlanc · Commonwealth v. Ferreira
  2. “the proper 'unit of prosecution' under the statute is the act of leaving the scene of the accident, not the number of accident victims.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Stone · 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1112 - Commonwealth v. Tranchita
  3. “it is the operation of the vehicle itself that is the crime”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1101 - Commonwealth v. Kimenker · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1129 - Commonwealth v. Theisen

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.