Commonwealth v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
38
cited by 38 later decisions
5
states following
May 2015
most recently cited
38 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Minnesota v. Dickerson · Commonwealth v. Petroll · Commonwealth v. Graham · 340 Pa. Super. 563 - Commonwealth v. Kendrick
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what appeared to be a cigarette or cigar and something similar to a pill bottle in the liner of [the suspect’s] jacket.” Id. Removing the items, the officer discovered that the pill bottle contained crack cocaine and the hollowed out cigar contained marijuana. See id. Despite the officer’s testimony that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“fail[ing] to examine the totality of the circumstances and discount[ing] the [officer’s] experience,” id. at 1271, and instead announcing an interpretation of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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