Commonwealth v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
51
cited by 51 later decisions
5
states following
December 2022
most recently cited
4 district · 43 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In re Clements · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Grandison · Commonwealth v. Stoute · Commonwealth v. Mercado
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]uch an individual, when approached by the police, might just as easily be motivated by the desire to avoid the recurring indignity of being racially profiled as by the desire to hide criminal activity,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Such interactions, field interrogation observations, ... properly are deemed consensual encounters because the individual approached remains free to terminate the conversation at will. That is, they are constitutionally insignificant, and a police officer may initiate such an encounter without any information indicating that the individual has been or is presently engaged in criminal activity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The essence of the reasonable suspicion inquiry is whether the police have an individualized suspicion that the person seized is the perpetrator of the suspected crime.”
3 later decisions 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.