Commonwealth v. Bostock’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[O]ur duty is to make an independent determination of the correctness of the judge's application of constitutional * principles to the facts as found.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Agogo · 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1104 - Commonwealth v. Burgos

2. “strip or visual body cavity searches, by their very nature, are humiliating, demeaning, and terrifying experiences that, without question, constitute a substantial intrusion on one's personal privacy rights protected under the Fourth Amendment [to the United States Constitution] and art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Agogo

3. “Where a police officer has a reasonable, articulable suspicion that a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime, the officer may stop that person to conduct a threshold inquiry.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1114 - Commonwealth v. Pinckney