Commonwealth v. DiGeronimo’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tyree (2010), Commonwealth v. Shanley (2010)
2 district · 30 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 Strickland v. Washington · Katz v. United States · United States v. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The circumstances that have been recognized as justifying failure to obtain a warrant have been severely circumscribed by the courts as being both few, Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 357 (1967), and exceptional, G.M. Leasing Corp. v. United States, 429 U.S. 338, 352-353, 358 (1977). The Supreme Court of the United States has also observed that the few exceptions are ‘jealously and carefully drawn,’ Jones v. United States, 357 U.S. 493, 499 (1958), and that the government’s ‘heavy burden’ in such cases, Welsh v. Wisconsin, 466 U.S. [740,] 749-750 [1984], is to show that, even within the few, narrow exceptions, proceeding without a warrant was ‘imperative.’ McDonald v. United States, 335 U.S. 451, 456 (1948).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“police can have no reasonable expectation that a warrantless entry will enable them to obtain or preserve such evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. People v. Wehmas
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.