Commonwealth v. Botev’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lord Electric Co. v. United States · United States v. Crews · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Morey v. Commonwealth · Elam v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determine the appropriate 'unit of prosecution', we 'look to the language and purpose of the statute[ ], to see whether [it] speak[s] directly to the issue of the appropriate unit of prosecution.'”
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.