Commonwealth v. Matis’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2020
14 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 Berlandi v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Lampron · Madden v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Jansen · Commonwealth v. Mitchell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be carefully tailored to protect the legitimate privacy interests involved”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The order [allowing access to the crime scene] should be specific as to scope, and may include, among other things, conditions as to who may have access on behalf of the defense, when that access may occur and for how long, and whether additional persons should be permitted or required to attend to ensure the peaceable nature of the inspection, the integrity of the evidence, and the privacy of matters beyond the scope of the order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tetu.
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.