Commonwealth v. Pellier’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Commonwealth v. Smith (1976), Commonwealth v. Accaputo (1980)
2 district · 26 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 · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Spinelli 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is a triviality. 990 [T]he point of the affidavit, after all, is practical, not formal, to furnish a proper basis for issuing the warrant 9 9 9 and here the affidavit bespeaks Boston as though it had been named; these were Boston police and this was a Boston court, and the warrant issued did in fact give the address as in Boston. A conveyancer’s precision of language is not to be expected in the affidavit. [Citations.]” ( 362 Mass. 621, 624-25 , 289 N.E.2d 892, 894 .)”
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.