Commonwealth v. Flanagan’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Fidler · Commonwealth v. Gunter
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.
“We presume that when the Legislature enacts a statute it is aware of the prior state of the law as explicated by the decisions of the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unit of prosecution is the injury caused to a victim by the defendant's impaired and negligent driving,”
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.