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← 56 MASSAPPCT 550 - Commonwealth v. Doocey

Commonwealth v. Doocey’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

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

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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 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.

  1. “there is an edge added to the calculus upon which that reasonable suspicion may be determined,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “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
  3. “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.