Commonwealth v. Sweezey’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
2
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Commonwealth v. Stoute · Commonwealth v. Borges · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Thibeau
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile this activity may have been consistent with innocent activity, the conclusion drawn by the officers was substantially more than a hunch.”
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.