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← 434 MASS 473 - Commonwealth v. Buccella

Commonwealth v. Buccella’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1232G (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974)

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Cortez · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · United States v. Miller · 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The standard of reasonable suspicion[, which is lower than the standard of probable cause,] does not require absolute certainty, but only 'sufficient probability,' 'the sort of”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “-including government officials-are entitled to rely.'”
    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.