Commonwealth v. Bond’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Rodriguez (1979), Commonwealth v. Young (1981)
50 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Sedillo v. United States · Andresen v. Maryland
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the process of a continuing search directed to finding the designated materials ... the officers could seize articles 'in plain view.’ By that somewhat misleading expression is meant articles which are come by 'inadvertently’ — without particular design — and which, on being discovered, are reasonably believed by the officers to be connected with criminal activity” (citation omitted). We went on to state in that decision that, unlike contraband, and fruits or instrumentalities of crime,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“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
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.