Commonwealth v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1977
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eisenstadt v. Baker · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Commonwealth v. Shaffer · Commonwealth v. Jeffries
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this `coercion of the police officers who confronted the three males on pure speculation and without any probable cause' . . . caused the abandonment of the heroin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hall“`three police officers surround[ed] and follow[ed] the defendant, in effect, illegally restricting his freedom by their threatening actions'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hall“. . . the narcotics were dropped even before the police had approached [Hall],”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hall
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.