Commonwealth v. Brion’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Eller (2002), Commonwealth v. Glass (2000)
88 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 United States v. White · Blystone v. Pennsylvania · White v. Morgan · Commonwealth v. Edmunds · Commonwealth v. Peterkin
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person may legitimately expect the highest degree or privacy known to our society”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“an individual can reasonably expect that his right to privacy will not be violated ... through the use of any electronic surveillance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]mplicit in any discussion of an expectation that a communication will not be recorded, is a discussion of the right to privacy.”
3 later decisions 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.