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← 453 MASS 554 - Commonwealth v. Eggleston

Commonwealth v. Eggleston’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Pennsylvania v. Labron · Commonwealth v. Cast · Commonwealth v. Bongarzone · Commonwealth v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Motta

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

  1. “even when the police had ample opportunity to obtain a search warrant, provided * that there has been no unreasonable delay.”
    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.