Commonwealth v. Lyles’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
4
states following
April 2022
most recently cited
2 district · 25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · Fearance v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Yesilciman
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interaction[s] in which a police officer identifies an individual and finds out that person's business for being in a particular area.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a reasonable person would not believe that he could terminate the encounter and leave, given the importance of having identification, such as a driver's license, to daily transactions in today's society”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Westover“'[Article] 14 [of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights] provides more substantive protection than does the Fourth Amendment [to the United States Constitution] in defining the moment' of seizure”
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.