Commonwealth v. Almonor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although art. 14 [of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights] and the Fourth Amendment [to the United States Constitution] guard against both, a search and a seizure are distinct legal concepts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 618 - Commonwealth v. Fencher

2. “society reasonably expects that the police will not be able to secretly manipulate our personal cell phones for any purpose, let alone for the purpose of transmitting our personal location data”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Lugo

3. “Cell phones 'physically accompany their users everywhere' such that tracking a cell phone results in 'near perfect surveillance' of its user.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Hobbs