Commonwealth v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Isaiah I. (2008), Commonwealth v. DePeiza (2007)
84 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · Minnesota v. Dickerson · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Freeman
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 84 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 evidence, we accept the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error and leave to the judge the responsibility of determining the weight and credibility to be given ... testimony presented at the motion hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e review independently the application of constitutional principles to the facts found.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A police officer may make an investigatory stop "where suspicious conduct gives the officer reasonable ground to suspect that a person is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a crime.”
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.