Commonwealth v. Sumerlin’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mercado (1996), Commonwealth v. Santaliz (1992)
34 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 · Kolender v. Lawson · Michigan v. Long · Pennsylvania v. Mimms
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.
“a reasonable belief based on 'specific and articulable facts which ... warrant' the officer in believing that the suspect is dangerous.”
2 later decisions 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.