Commonwealth v. Grandison’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably In the Interest of L.J. (2013), Commonwealth v. Scott (2004)
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 159 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 Terry v. Ohio · Michigan v. Chesternut · City of Revere v. Massachusetts General Hospital · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Massa 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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) A person commits the crime of resisting arrest if he knowingly prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer, acting under color of his official authority, from effecting an arrest of the actor or another, by: (1) using or threatening to use physical force or violence against the police officer or another; or (2) using any other means which creates a substantial risk of causing bodily injury to such police officer or another.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an actual or constructive seizure or detention of the person,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]n reviewing a judge's ruling on a motion to suppress, an appellate court 'may not rely on the facts as developed at trial' even where the testimony differed materially from that given at trial”
2 later decisions 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.