Commonwealth v. Driscoll’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Shiffler (2005), Commonwealth v. Harner (1992)
120 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.
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“having a potential for abuse associated with a stimulant effect on the central nervous system”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.