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.
“[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.