Commonwealth v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Cast (1990), Commonwealth v. Va Meng Joe (1997)
39 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 · Katz v. United States · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · United States v. Ross
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.
“[t]o allow the Commonwealth to do anything short of complying in full with its own guidelines would inject an element of discretion into the roadblock procedures and thus undercut the very foundation upon which the roadblock seizure is constitutionally justified.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]ince the Commonwealth's guidelines regulating roadblocks have been held to supply the `reasonableness' in these seizures that lack the usual probable cause or individualized suspicion requirements which ordinarily safeguard citizens from arbitrary government intrusion, we believe the fairest course is to require the Commonwealth to follow its own rules.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“meet standard, neutral guidelines, and be conducted pursuant to a plan devised in advance by law enforcement supervisory personnel”
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.