Commonwealth v. Storck’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Commonwealth v. Platou (1973), Commonwealth v. Albrecht (1986)
27 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 Jones v. United States · Bumper v. North Carolina · Stoner v. California · Frazier v. Cupp · Chapman v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The suit cases, boxes and duffel bag were merely “stored” on Carreira’s [the boat owner] boat. His possession was for a limited purpose, and somewhat akin to that of a bank which rents boxes in its safe box vault for the “storage” of its customers’ valuables. Carreira had no authority to open the containers or to use them for his own purposes ... nor do the facts establish that Storck [the fugitive/defendant] relinquished or abandoned his ownership or control in and over the articles stored. Hence, the contention of the Commonwealth that Car-reira enjoyed an independent right of his own to consent to the seizure cannot be sustained.”
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.