Commonwealth v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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

1. “person who lives in the home, either as a member of the family, a roommate, or a houseguest whose stay is of substantial duration and who is given full access to the home,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Kenneth M. Sobczak

2. “we do not consider [the officer's] intent in entering [the home] in determining whether the entry constituted a search in the constitutional sense”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Almonor

3. “In the home, our cases show, all details are intimate details, because the entire area is held safe from prying government eyes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kenneth M. Sobczak