Commonwealth v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2021
24 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 Commonwealth v. Silva · Commonwealth v. King · Commonwealth v. Amendola · 93 Wash. 2d 638 - State v. Larson · State v. Damm
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a random request for identification papers constitutes ... the sort of request uncomfortably associated with authoritarian societies and most commonly made of persons belonging to a racial or ethnic minority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]nterrogation of passengers in a car stopped for a traffic offense, without an objective basis for suspicion that the passenger is involved in criminal activity, slips into the dragnet category of questioning that art. 14 [of Massachusetts's State Constitution] prohibits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez“passengers in [a] car unless the [law enforcement officer] has a `reasonable suspicion, grounded in specific, articulable facts,' that a particular passenger in the car is involved in criminal activity or `engaged in other suspicious conduct.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rankin
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.