Commonwealth v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Anderson (2012), Commonwealth v. Mubdi (2010)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States
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.
“the basis of knowledge of the source of the information (the basis of knowledge test) and the underlying circumstances demonstrating that the source of the information was credible or the information reliable (veracity test)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]ecause the basis of [the 911 caller's] knowledge was his own personal observation, he gave his true name to the police, and he was a cousin of the victim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“could have fit a large number of men who reside in . . . a predominantly [B]lack neighborhood of the city”
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.