Colbert v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
January 2014
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Payton v. New York
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he authority which justifies the third-party consent does not rest upon the law of property, with its attendant historical and legal refinements, but rests rather on mutual use of the property by persons generally having joint access or control for most purposes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[c]ommon authority is, of course, not to be implied from the mere property interests a third party has in the property,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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