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← 459 MASS 1010 - Commonwealth v. Levy

Commonwealth v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Santaliz · Commonwealth v. Kennedy · Commonwealth v. Coronel · Commonwealth v. Levy

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

  1. “that an officer must actually see an object exchanged, the suspect's movements, as observed by the officer, must provide factual support for the inference that the parties exchanged an object,”
    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.