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← 480 Mass. 90 - Commonwealth v. Eldred

Commonwealth v. Eldred’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Robinson v. State of California · Black v. Romano · United States v. Virginia · 116 S. Ct. 696 - United States v. Reorganized CF & I Fabricators of Utah, Inc.

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

  1. “[An] individualized approach to probation fosters an environment that enables and encourages recovery, while recognizing that relapse is part of recovery”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The primary goals of probation are twofold: rehabilitation of the defendant and protection of the public from the defendant's potential recidivism”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Trial court judges, particularly judges in the drug courts, stand on the front lines of the opioid epidemic.”
    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.