Commonwealth v. Kiley’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2019
1 district · 10 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Draper v. United States · Commonwealth v. Vynorius
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.
“The reliability of [an] informant could be inferred from the recital that tips from him had led to the recovery of contraband at an earlier time”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“gained force from other tips which corroborated their assertions.”
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.