Commonwealth v. Thorpe’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Blood (1987), Commonwealth v. D'Amour (1999)
31 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Berger v. New York · United States v. White · Lopez 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to show that the decision to intercept was made on the basis of a reasonable suspicion that interception would disclose or lead to evidence of a designated offense in connection with organized crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are strictly confidential and not readily available, we may infer that a certain amount of discipline and organization would be required to acquire and supply the examinations illicitly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“free speech and privacy values are unduly threatened by the risk that when one speaks to a known police officer he may be recording the conversation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Geraw
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.