Commonwealth v. Bacon’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Santana (1995), Commonwealth v. Mercado (1996)
90 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 Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Delaware v. Prouse · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Brown v. Texas
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the police have observed a traffic violation, they are warranted in stopping a vehicle.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A mere 'hunch' is not enough. Simple good faith on the part of the officer is not enough. The test is an objective one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Commonwealth v. Almeida, 373 Mass. 266, 270 (1977).”
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.