Commonwealth v. Sousa’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · Board of Education v. Assessor of Worcester · Water Department of Fairhaven v. Department of Environmental Protection · Commonwealth v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Constantino
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question is whether the defendant's driving had the potential to cause danger to the public, not whether it actually did”
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.