Commonwealth v. Tate’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2009
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Freeman · 106 Ill. 2d 201 - People v. Madej · United States v. Moore · State v. White · United States v. Lyons
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any action in this state to recognize voluntary drug addiction, standing alone, as a mental illness, is to be accomplished, if ever, by the legislature rather than by judicial decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n order for addiction to relieve an accused of criminal responsibility it must be proved that his addiction amounted to or caused mental illness or retardation.”
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.