Commonwealth v. Pagan’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2022
21 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 Adams v. Williams · Michigan v. Long · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · 196 Ill. 2d 425 - People v. Sorenson · Commonwealth v. Silva
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particular features of the container, readily observable by the police, may make it apparent that nothing short of opening the container will suffice to address the officer's reasonable suspicions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The purpose behind the protective measures allowed by Terry is to enable an officer to confirm or dispel reasonable suspicions that the stopped suspect may be armed with a weapon . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the police cannot safely allow a detained suspect to reach inside a container that they reasonably fear may contain a weapon.”
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.