Commonwealth v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Scott (2004), Commonwealth v. Williams (1996)
2 federal appellate · 101 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 Illinois v. Gates · Adams v. Williams · Alabama v. White · Massachusetts v. Upton · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Independent police corroboration may make up for deficiencies in one or both of these factors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In White, police corroborated the informant's predictions that a woman would leave a particular apartment building within a particular time frame, get into a particular automobile, and drive to a particular location. When the woman had nearly reached the predicted destination, the police stopped her. The Supreme Court noted that, although the route taken by the woman was the most direct, the route involved several turns. The Supreme Court stated that the "respondent's destination was significantly corroborated." Id., 110 S.Ct. at 2417 . The Supreme Court upheld the stop, noting that it was a "close case." The Supreme Court ultimately was persuaded by the informant's ability to predict "future behavior [ i.e., the time and place of departure, the car to be utilized, and the destination] because it demonstrated inside information a special familiarity with respondent's affairs." [ Commonwealth v. Lyons, 406 Mass. 16 , 564 N.E. 2d 390, 393, n. 5 (Sup.Ct. 1990)]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f the police conduct an investigatory stop based on an informant's tip, our evaluation of the tip's indicia of reliability will be focused on the informant's reliability and his or her basis of knowledge.”
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.