Commonwealth v. Soto’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2018
17 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. Cohen · Commonwealth v. Woods · Commonwealth v. LaVelle · Commonwealth v. Miller · Commonwealth v. Rivera
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inference that the defendant sold the drugs 'need not be necessary or inescapable so long as it is reasonable and possible.' " Ibid ., quoting from Commonwealth v. Cohen , 412 Mass. 375 , 380, 589 N.E.2d 289 (1992). We conclude that, in this case, the Commonwealth presented "evidence from which a finder [could without speculation] infer the essential facts”
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.