Commonwealth v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 222 Ill. 2d 530 - People v. Luedemann (2006), Commonwealth v. Borges (1985)
2 district · 99 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 · Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“broke the chain of causation and dissipated the taint of the prior illegality”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The very limited and focused inspection of a vehicle to determine whether assistance or aid is required is a minimal intrusion on the occupant’s, or owner’s, expectation of privacy. The situation here does not involve a random stop causing concern, fright, or anxiety. ... It does not involve a situation where a more limited alternative is possible or where there is no constraint on the discretion of the law enforcer. . . . The policy required every stopped and parked car to be inspected. The policy limited the intrusion only to that time period when the hazards arise.” (Citations and footnote omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[If] the driver had not attacked the investigating troopers, the evidence would be inadmissible as fruit of the poisonous tree. What distinguishes this case . . . is the . . . independent and intervening action of attacking the troopers. These acts broke the chain of causation and dissipated the taint of the prior illegality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.