Commonwealth v. Pina’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Montanez (1991), Commonwealth v. Berry (1995)
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 Katz v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Hudson v. Palmer · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Lister 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] Miranda-like warning is not a necessary prerequisite to a valid consent [to search] under the Fourth Amendment [to the United States Constitution] or under art. 14 [of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The theory on which a motion to suppress is presented in the trial court cannot be changed when the motion comes before this court for review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“normal precautions to implement any expectation of privacy he may have had in his wallet”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.