Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “contract[ing] around the reasonable suspicion requirement [and] making the issuance of a prisoner's parole subject to suspicionless searches and seizures of his home.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Feliz · 95 Mass. App. Ct. 103 - Commonwealth v. Judge

2. “inappropriately [would] allow the parole board to compel a parolee, keen to commute his or her sentence, to accept a condition that would unnecessarily and unreasonably limit his or her art. 14 privacy rights”

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

3. “the Commonwealth's supervisory interests are more significant than a parolee's diminished expectation of privacy,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 103 - Commonwealth v. Judge