Commonwealth v. Phifer’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
4
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Bell v. Wolfish · Chimel v. California · Weeks v. United States · United States v. Robinson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have wisely not yet ruled whether a more intrusive search of a smartphone, or any other device capable of storing highly personal information, may be conducted as a search incident to arrest, even where the police may have probable cause to believe that evidence of the crime of arrest may be found in the text messages, e-mails, or other data storage areas of the telephone where an individual maintains a reasonable expectation of privacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. STATE v. MARCUM
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.