Commonwealth v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Figueroa v. United States · Commonwealth v. McCarthy · Commonwealth v. O'DELL · Commonwealth v. Cinelli · Commonwealth v. Tucceri
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here was no suggestion in the investigative reports on the Hinton drug lab that Dookhan's misconduct extended beyond cases in which she served as either the primary or the secondary analyst”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where a judge dismisses a criminal complaint without prejudice, the judge's decision should be upheld absent an abuse of discretion.”
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.