Commonwealth v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Ferris v. State (1999), Commonwealth v. Gonsalves (1999)
79 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 Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · Berkemer v. McCarty · Florida v. Bostick · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“); Com. v. Torres, 424 Mass. 153 , 674 N.E.2d 638, 642 (1997) (“It is well settled that a police inquiry in a routine traffic stop must end on the production of a valid license and registration unless the police have grounds for inferring that ‘either the operator or his passengers were involved in the commission of a crime ... or engaged in other suspicious conduct.’ ”). 21 .See Ferris, 735 A.2d at 499 (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is not unnatural for either the driver or the passenger in an automobile (or both) to get out of the vehicle to meet a police officer who has signalled the vehicle over to the side of the road.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It appears doubtful that the Commonwealth has enough evidence to reprosecute the defendant[ ], but we will leave the final decision on that matter to the district attorney ....”
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.