10 Mass. App. Ct. 549 - Commonwealth v. Dellinger’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2017
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Terry v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Chambers v. Maroney · Berger 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A burglarious intention can doubtless be inferred from mere possession of tools uniquely or very highly adapted to burglarious purposes . . . but an intention to use ordinary tools for unlawful purposes must appear clearly from the circumstances in which they are found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“because the evidence did not warrant a finding that the [suspected] hijacking was to be executed that day, the inference that those were the tools to be used in the hijacking is much attenuated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.