Commonwealth v. Gomes’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. Wisconsin · United States v. Prendergast · Commonwealth v. Gonsalves · Commonwealth v. Pike · United States v. Bass
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]andom drug and alcohol testing constitutes a search and seizure for constitutional purposes under art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.