Commonwealth v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · New York v. Class · Commonwealth v. Forde · Commonwealth v. Moon
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.
“[a]ny delay in determining ownership of the car could have had a detrimental effect on the ability of the police to apprehend the criminal while he could still be linked with his distinctive clothing”
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.