Commonwealth v. Kaufman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bottari (1985), Commonwealth v. Watson (2000)
4 district · 37 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Draper v. United States · United States v. Harris · SGRO 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the description of criminal activity was without the detail, either as to its content or the process by which the content was obtained, that could raise it above the level of a casual rumor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Notably absent is reliable specific information from any quarter placing illegal drugs or drug transactions there in the past ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“here we have an equivocal circumstance distant from any inference that the magistrate could validly make ...”
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.