Commonwealth v. Bottari’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Cast (1990), Commonwealth v. Santaliz (1992)
4 district · 73 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he officers' use of force was not precipitated by any actions of the defendant[ ], nor did the officers testify that they feared for their safety or the safety of others at the time they approached the [GMC] with their guns drawn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“without the presence of other fear-provoking circumstances,”
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.