Commonwealth v. Mock’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Maravilla v. United States · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Silva
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e state expressly that police officers may not escalate a consensual encounter into a protective frisk absent a reasonable suspicion that an individual has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a criminal offense and is armed and dangerous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gunter v. Cicero
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.