Commonwealth v. O'Day’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Connolly (2009), Commonwealth v. Estabrook (2015)
4 district · 87 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Carnegie v. United States · Commonwealth v. Upton · United States v. Lucarz
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur inquiry as to the sufficiency of the search warrant application always begins and ends with the 'four corners of the affidavit.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he affidavit should be read as a whole, not parsed, severed, and subjected to hypercritical analysis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To establish probable cause to obtain a search warrant, the affidavit must 'contain enough information ... to determine that the items sought are related to the criminal activity under investigation, and that they may reasonably be expected to be located in the place to be searched.'”
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.