Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Leon · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Sharpe · Brown v. Texas
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n determining the reasonable duration of a stop, 'it [is] appropriate to examine whether the police diligently pursued [the] investigation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Commonwealth v. Lane“[a]uthority for the seizure thus ends when tasks tied to the traffic infraction are-or reasonably should have been-completed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Commonwealth v. Lane“An appellate court may decide only those issues which were fully presented to the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ritchie v. Turner
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.