Commonwealth v. Franco’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Keefner (2012), Commonwealth v. Silva (2004)
26 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 Payton v. New York · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Commonwealth v. Haas · Commonwealth v. Storey · Commonwealth v. Santaliz
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]robable cause exists where, at the moment of arrest, the facts and circumstances within the knowledge of the police are enough to warrant a prudent person in believing that the individual arrested has committed or was committing an offense”
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.