Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Silva · Commonwealth v. Grandison
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person commits the crime of resisting arrest if he knowingly prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer, acting under color of his official authority, from effecting an arrest . . . by . . . using any other means which creates a substantial risk of causing bodily injury to such police officer or another.” 4”
1 later decision 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.