Commonwealth v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
2 district · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Figueroa v. United States · Commonwealth v. Cinelli · United States v. Canieso · Commonwealth v. Cefalo
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“common in the illegal distribution of controlled substances”
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.