Commonwealth v. Straw’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kaupp (2009), Commonwealth v. McCarthy (1999)
31 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · United States v. Place · United States v. Chadwick · California v. Ciraolo
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant threw, dropped, or left the container, or some other item, in an area in which, by law, he or she had no reasonable expectation of privacy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“it is in the home that a person's expectation of privacy is at its highest”
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.