Commonwealth v. Sbordone’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 790 So. 2d 773 - Conley v. State (2001), United States v. Bach (2002)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3105
Relies on Demos v. Supreme Court of Washington · Commonwealth v. Blood · Commonwealth v. Pratt · Commonwealth v. O'CONNOR · Buonocore v. Harris
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nlike civilians, police officers have taken an oath to uphold federal and state constitutions and laws and are trained to conduct a search lawfully and in accordance with the provisions of a warrant ... and, unlike sworn police officers, civilians are not subject to departmental discipline for any failure to adhere to the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There are also many sound policy reasons for holding the police responsible for appropriately limiting a civilian's role in the conduct of a warranted search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This oath is of no small moment as a protection to our citizens when their privacy is lawfully intruded upon by a search pursuant to a warrant.”
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.