Commonwealth v. Darnell D.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2021
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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Swafford · Commonwealth v. Armand · Commonwealth v. Mazza
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish possession, the prosecution must show that the defendant exercised `dominion and control' over the automobile.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person's presence in a vehicle as a passenger, without more, is insufficient to prove that he possessed the vehicle”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re RKS“[A] conviction [on a RSP charge] may not be based on consciousness of guilt alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re RKS
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.