Commonwealth v. Love’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
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
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.
“able and not unwilling to be identified.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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“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.