Commonwealth v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Roberts · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate · Commonwealth v. Koney · Commonwealth v. Jackson · Commonwealth v. D'Agostino
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on August 28, 2015, could lead the jury to speculate that the defendant refused to submit to testing because he believed or suspected that he had had too much to drink. Speculation of this nature could lead to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no mention either of a defendant's legal right to refuse to take the breathalyzer or the possible reasons for any refusal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is widespread public information and common knowledge about breathalyzer testing.”
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.