Commonwealth v. Doocey’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Warren (2016), Commonwealth v. Mubdi (2010)
26 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 Terry v. Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Commonwealth v. Silva · United States v. Lender · Stoker v. Texas
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is an edge added to the calculus upon which that reasonable suspicion may be determined,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general descriptive characteristics of a man dressed all in black . . . would not, standing alone, provide distinguishing traces of sufficient particularity to allow for the identification of a suspect”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Specifically, the 'test for determining reasonable suspicion should include consideration of the possibility of the possession of a gun, and the government's need for prompt investigation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.