Commonwealth v. Holton’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Jones (1974), Commonwealth v. Boyd (1975)
99 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 Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Carroll v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““if the facts and circumstances which are within the knowledge of the officer at the time of arrest, and of which he has reasonably trustworthy information, are sufficient to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that the suspect has committed or is committing a crime.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is not for us to determine the court's intent in making this statement or the jury's inference from it. What is significant is that both interpretations are equally plausible. More importantly, individual jurors might have concluded . . . that the court was threatening them with the wrath of God should they bring in a verdict of not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“our strong conviction that our system of law enforcement should not operate so as to take advantage of a person”
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.