Commonwealth v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. DePeiza (2007), Commonwealth v. Rogers (2005)
2 district · 39 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 · Payton v. New York · Texas v. Brown · Steagald v. United States · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall state the grounds on which it is based and shall include in separately numbered paragraphs all reasons, defenses, or objections then available, which shall be set forth with particularity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“alerts the judge and the Commonwealth to the suppression theories at issue, and allows the Commonwealth to limit its evidence to these theories.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“An arrest warrant 'encompasses the power to enter a [suspect's] residence for the purpose of executing the warrant'”
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.