Commonwealth v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Crayton (2014), Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009)
42 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 · Bates v. State Bar · Commonwealth v. Latimore · In re Clements · Commonwealth v. Bowden
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had been detained in a police wagon, was handcuffed, and was flanked by two police officers”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“because of the violent nature of the reported crimes, [defendant's] attempt to flee, and the possible danger to the safety of the officers as well as the potential occupants of the house”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] combination of factors that are each innocent of themselves may, when taken together, amount to the requisite reasonable belief.”
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.