27 Mass. App. Ct. 41 - Commonwealth v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Santaliz (1992), Commonwealth v. Alvarado (1995)
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 Brinegar v. United States · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Texas v. Brown · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Hollis v. Commonwealth
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The officers must have entertained rationally 'more than a suspicion of criminal involvement, something definite and substantial, but not a prima facie case of the commission of a crime, let alone a case beyond a reasonable doubt'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“capable of use for a lawful as well as an unlawful purpose,”
1 later decision 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.