Commonwealth v. Panetti’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Jimenez (2002), Commonwealth v. Montanez (1991)
38 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 Katz v. United States · Smith v. Maryland · Silverman v. United States · California v. Ciraolo · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person would have no justified expectation of privacy in conversations that can be heard by the unaided ear of an eavesdropper lawfully in a contiguous apartment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Boceski“where neither neighbors nor the public would ordinarily be expected to be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.