Commonwealth v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · United States v. Leon · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Upton
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was called as an expert concerning the charge of intent to distribute and thus was never asked directly to identify the marijuana”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to deter police misconduct and preserve judicial integrity by dissociating courts from unlawful conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the officer exhausted all reasonable efforts to find a judge before whom he could personally appear.”
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.