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← 453 MASS 811 - Commonwealth v. Lyles

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.

  1. “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
  2. “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 passage
  3. “'[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.