Commonwealth v. Cordero’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2022
4 district · 15 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 Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Sharpe · Reid v. Georgia · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Adair v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Ultimately, by the time the trooper finished discussing with the defendant the broken lights and the window tint, the investigation of the civil traffic violations was complete. Because this investigation did not give rise to reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, the trooper did not have a legitimate basis to detain the defendant, and the defendant should have been allowed to drive away."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A routine traffic stop may not last longer than 'reasonably necessary to effectuate the purpose of the stop.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here the police have observed a traffic violation, they are warranted in stopping a vehicle.”
2 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.