Commonwealth v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 165 W. Va. 837 - State v. Moore (1980), 305 Pa. Super. 386 - Commonwealth v. Trenge (1982)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Commonwealth v. Kichline · Commonwealth v. Shaffer · Commonwealth v. Lewis · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Dickerson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“officers must have independent probable cause to believe that a felony has been committed, and must have a basis for believing either that evidence of a crime is concealed in the vehicle or that there are weapons therein accessible to occupants of the car.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.