Commonwealth v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We decry, and demand to protect against the stormtroopers’ tactics while, at the same time, we accept the draping of the Constitution around these criminal employments much as the Axis Powers in World War II were wont to drape their munitions’ factories and arms stockpiles with Red Cross, or other hospital, insignia in order to fool the tenderhearted Allies, who would never dream of bombing a hospital.””

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

2. “Do we really mean to protect those "homes" which are nothing more than warehouses for the storage of drugs which are to be illegally sold, or for storerooms in which these drugs are illegally sold, or kitchens in which these drugs are cooked and manufactured for illegal sale____ What is the nature of this "home” we so desperately seek to protect from the intrusion of governmental stormtroopers?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 408 Pa. Super. 22 - Commonwealth v. Peterson