Commonwealth v. Krisco Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Riverdale Mills Corp. v. Pimpare (2004), Commonwealth v. O'Brien (2000)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Bumper v. North Carolina · Soberon v. United States · California v. Greenwood
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unfettered by coercion, express or implied”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“acquiescence to a claim of lawful authority”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“was located in an alley adjacent to the defendants’ business and, although strangers occasionally managed to throw objects into the dumpster, it was intended for use exclusively by the [defendants’] shop . . . Unlike cases finding no reasonable expectation of privacy, [the individual defendant] in the instant case took affirmative steps to protect his privacy interest in the dumpster. He installed gates at either end of the fenced alley and kept them closed until the waste hauler arrived.”
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.