Commonwealth v. Philyaw’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Kyriaco v. United States · Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Fidler · United States v. McKinney
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“officer should not be put in the false position of seeming just to have happened upon the scene,”
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.