Rabovsky v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2017
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hayes v. Lockhart · In re Disbarment of Schaefer · Michigan Citizens for an Independent Press v. Thornburgh · United States v. Cardenas · Whittaker v. Thornberry
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven with respect to substances which are not clearly identifiable or distinguishable, it is unnecessary to establish a perfect chain of custody or eliminate all possibility of tampering or misidenti-fication, so long as there is persuasive evidence that the reasonable probability is that the evidence has not been altered in any material respect.... Gaps in the chain normally go to the weight of the evidence rather than to its admissibility.”
6 later decisions 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.