Commonwealth v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Isaiah I. (2007), Commonwealth v. DePeiza (2007)
193 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 Terry v. Ohio · Commonwealth v. Yesilciman · Commonwealth v. Grandison · Commonwealth v. Moon · Commonwealth v. Jimenez
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a ruling on a motion to suppress, we accept the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error 'but conduct an independent review of his ultimate findings and conclusions of law.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“make an independent determination of the correctness of the judge's application of constitutional principles to the facts as found.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“suspicion must be grounded in 'specific, articulable facts and reasonable inferences [drawn] therefrom' rather than on a 'hunch.'”
2 later decisions 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.