Commonwealth v. Eckert’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 46 state decisions

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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “that, by walking up to the defendant's parked vehicle at the rest area, knocking on the window, shining his flashlight inside and asking whether the defendant was `all set,' [a state trooper] did not engage in any conduct that requires constitutional justification, as he neither asserted nor implied that the defendant was not free at that moment to ignore this inquiry into his well-being”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. United States v. Barry

2. “is not limited to driving a vehicle or setting it in motion, but encompasses also the intentional act of starting the vehicle's engine”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1122 - Commonwealth v. Murphy

3. “However, we review independently the motion judge's application of constitutional principles to the facts found.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 56 - Commonwealth v. Harris