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← 250 SW3D 631 - Commonwealth v. Brown

Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 2010
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · Alabama v. White

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.

  1. “[i]n examining this case as to the reasonableness of the officers' actions, we must pause and ask ourselves this question. What should the officers have done differently?”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.