Commonwealth v. Lehan’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Silva (1974), Commonwealth v. Campbell (1967)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Jones v. United States · Ker v. State of California · Henry v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Law Relating to `On the Street' Detention, Questioning and Frisking of Suspected Persons and Police Arrest Privileges in General,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dilley“The Fourth Amendment and the Law of Arrest,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dilley“the questioned person of “unlawful design,”
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.