Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pickron (1993), Shea v. Smith (1992)
37 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · Mempa v. Rhay · Wyman v. James
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Parole officers appointed by the board are hereby declared to be peace officers and are hereby given police power and authority throughout the Commonwealth to arrest without warrant, writ, rule or process any parolee or probationer under the supervision of the board for failing to report as required by the terms of his probation or parole, or for any other violation thereof.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“became a police officer, the administrative justification that generally permitted him to avoid acquisition of a warrant was no longer applicable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when performing his normal duties, a parole agent is not required to obtain a search warrant,”
2 later decisions 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.