Commonwealth v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably State v. Andrus (1967), Commonwealth v. Gibson (1994)
32 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Escobedo v. Illinois · United States v. Rabinowitz · United States v. Lee · Zap 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he term `search' as applied to searches and seizures is an examination of an individual's house, buildings or person, for the purpose of discovering contraband or some evidence of guilt to be used in the prosecution of a criminal action.”
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.