Commonwealth v. Tatum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[sjince police who enter a dwelling to effect an arrest presumably are searching for the subject, not for evidence that may incriminate others who may live there, they will have little, if any, incentive to- obtain a search warrant -if the suspect cannot-.challenge the entry. On the other hand, the owner of the home will not have occasion to. challenge an unlawful - entry except in the unusual case, where the police-come upon plain-view evidence that incriminates the owner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State of Minnesota v. Leona Rose deLottinville

2. “[T]he sanctity of the home is of central concern in jurisprudence concerning the Fourth Amendment ... and art. 14 ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Almonor