Commonwealth v. Cast’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Scott (2004), Commonwealth v. Martino (1992)
2 district · 126 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 Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Draper 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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The defendant's interpretation of art. 14 would force the police in every motor vehicle search that turned up a closed container to impound and secure the vehicle while a warrant was obtained, United States v. Ross , [ 456 U.S. 798 ,] 821 n.28, 102 S.Ct. 2157 , 72 L.Ed.2d 572 [1982], not an unobtrusive procedure from the point of view of the defendant's privacy. Such a rule would unnecessarily burden the police and criminal justice system, while providing defendants with insignificant protections against privacy intrusions."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“must demonstrate some of the underlying circumstances from which (a) the informant gleaned his information (the `basis of knowledge' test), and (b) the law enforcement officials could have concluded the informant was credible or reliable (the `veracity' test).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities[,] ... the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent [individuals], not legal technicians, act.”
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.