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← 76 MASSAPPCT 456 - Commonwealth v. Flanagan

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.

  1. “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
  2. “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.