Commonwealth v. Staines’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 20 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The proper function of an opening is to outline in a general way the nature of the case which the counsel expects to be able to prove or support by evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 806 - Commonwealth v. Chambers · Commonwealth v. Ward

2. “It may be that an anticipatory warrant provides greater protection against unreasonable invasion of an individual's privacy than the typical search warrant, because an anticipatory warrant requires a triggering event, the condition on which the warrant takes effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ward, Unpublished Decision (6-17-2005)

3. “[t]he numerous controlled buys detailed in the affidavit establish that the car was used by the defendant to sell cocaine, and the reasonable inference . . . is that the defendant kept a larger stash of cocaine in the car when making a sale.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Blevins, 9-06-40 (12-26-2007)