Commonwealth v. Dasilva’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Neal v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Commonwealth v. Silva · Commonwealth v. Yesilciman
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We see no objective basis in the evidence for reasonable suspicion at the time the defendant was seized ... From the moment of the officers' first observation of the defendant until he slowed down and virtually halted pursuant to Officer Hernandez's second order to stop, the record shows (and the officer candidly admitted) that the police had no evidence or information-much less specific and articulable facts-creating the slightest suspicion that the defendant had committed, was in the course of committing, or was about to engage in any criminal conduct.”
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.