Commonwealth v. Buckley’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
3
states following
March 2024
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Whren v. United States · Bumper v. North Carolina · Florida v. Jimeno · Atwater v. City of Lago Vista
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.
“require that courts discern not only whether the police initially possessed some underlying motive that failed to align with the legal justification for their actions, but also whether the police were acting on that 'improper' motive”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he authority to conduct a traffic stop where a traffic violation has occurred is not limited by '[t]he fact that the [police] may have believed that the [driver was] engaging in illegal drug activity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“uneventful threshold inquiry giving rise to no further suspicion of criminal activity, he may not prolong the detention or expand the inquiry”
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.