Commonwealth v. DePeiza’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Isaiah I. (2008), Commonwealth v. Jones-Pannell (2015)
2 district · 77 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · Adams v. Williams · Berkemer v. McCarty
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“independently determine the correctness of the judge's application of constitutional principles to the facts as found.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although nervous or furtive movements do not supply reasonable suspicion when considered in isolation, they are properly considered together with other details to find reasonable suspicion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]eemingly innocent activities taken together can give rise to reasonable suspicion justifying a threshold inquiry”
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.