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← 56 MASSAPPCT 229 - Commonwealth v. Love

Commonwealth v. Love’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
August 2022
most recently cited

4 district · 20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2022

4 district · 20 state decisions

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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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Everett C. McKethan v. United States · Commonwealth v. Stoute

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “able and not unwilling to be identified.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “failure . . . to obtain greater identifying information [about her] was likely due to the urgency of the situation. It was not a function of a request by the [female caller] to remain anonymous.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the strict requirements of reliability that govern the analysis of an anonymous informant's trustworthiness are relaxed.”
    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.