Commonwealth v. Haskell’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Smith v. Massachusetts (2005), Commonwealth v. DePeiza (2007)
4 district · 27 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Schmerber v. State of California · Berkemer v. McCarty · Dickerson 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]olice officers conducting a threshold inquiry may take reasonable precautions, including drawing their weapons, when the circumstances give rise to legitimate safety concerns.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“depends on the proportional relationship of the degree of intrusiveness on the defendant to the degree of suspicion that prompted the intrusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the act of publicly loading a handgun is an event that creates a reasonable suspicion that a crime may be about to take place”
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.