Commonwealth v. Comita’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Walker (2011), Commonwealth v. Kolenovic (2015)
2 federal appellate · 80 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 · Kimmelman v. Morrison · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Rodriquez v. United States · 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“likely deprived the defendant of an otherwise available, substantial ground of defence.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“are granted only in extraordinary circumstances,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the defendant has to demonstrate a likelihood that the motion to suppress would have been successful.”
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.