Commonwealth v. Mathis, D., Aplt.’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
October 2025
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3052
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · Whren 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“briefly detain and direct the movement of an 'arrestee's companion' regardless of whether a reasonable suspicion exists that the companion is involved in criminal activity”
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.