Commonwealth v. Matos’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Cook (1999), Commonwealth v. Jackson (1997)
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 Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Leon · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · Dunaway v. New York
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The seriousness of criminal activity under investigation, whether it is the sale of drugs or the commission of a violent crime, can never be used as justification for ignoring or abandoning the constitutional right of every individual in this Commonwealth to be free from intrusions upon his or her personal liberty absent probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether contraband discarded by a person fleeing a police officer are the fruits of an illegal `seizure' where the officer possessed neither `probable cause' to arrest the individual nor reasonable suspicion to stop the individual and conduct a Terry frisk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re DM
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.