Harris v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Brown v. Com. (2005), Murphy v. Commonwealth (2002)
2 federal appellate · 84 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 Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Brinegar v. United States · Adams v. Williams · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The officer] knew from his personal experience of working “plain clothes assignments” and “making arrests” that certain people kept their narcotics and drugs in film canisters and “things of that nature.” However, law-abiding citizens, on a daily basis, also use film canisters to store film, which is a legitimate use. At best, [the officer] had a “hunch” and a report from an informant. However, the record in this case does not contain any evidence that the informant was reliable or credible. See Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 230 , 103 S.Ct. 2317, 2328 , 76 L.Ed.2d 527 , 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983) (such evidence “may usefully illuminate the ... question whether there is ‘probable cause’ ”).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States provides in part that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.... ” This inestimable right of personal security belongs to all citizens, whether they are in the comfort of their homes or in the streets of our cities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`due weight must be given ... to the specific reasonable inferences which he is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his experience'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Com. · Jones 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.