Commonwealth v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2022
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Bowden · Commonwealth v. Silva · Stoker v. Texas
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the defendant was not in the vehicle at the time the gun was observed, ... there was no assurance that he would not be returning promptly to his seat behind the wheel of the automobile”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“on reasonable suspicion of criminal activity”
1 later decision 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.