Commonwealth v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2021
2 district · 21 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 Oliver v. United States · United States v. Dunn · California v. Ciraolo · Maryland v. Garrison · Lister v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“encompass[ed] a common area utilized by all the tenants and visitors,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the proximity of the area to the home, (2) whether the area is included within an enclosure surrounding the home, (3) the nature of the uses to which the area is put, and (4) the steps taken by the resident to protect the area from observations by people passing by.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any landscape or design features within the parking lot which would create a reasonable expectation of privacy in any individual parking space”
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.