Posey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Payton v. New York · Ker v. State of California · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Destruction of evidence is a recognized exigent circumstance creating an exception to the warrant requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Washington v. Com.
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.