Massey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016
11 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 Ingram v. Commonwealth · Lawson v. State · Johnson v. Commonwealth · Williams v. Commonwealth · Baird 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Places within the described premises are not excluded merely because some additional act of entry or opening may be required. 'In countless cases in which warrants described only the land and the buildings, a search of desks, cabinets, closets and similar items has been permitted.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the search of the premises has been held not to be confined only to those buildings contained in the description, but includes all property necessarily part of the premises or so inseparable as to constitute a portion thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a house, building, or premises owned or controlled by Homer Massey and known as New Standard Service Station....”
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.