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← 58 MASSAPPCT 601 - Commonwealth v. Nicholson

Commonwealth v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Carroll v. United States · South Dakota v. Opperman · California v. Carney · Pennsylvania v. Labron · United States v. Gastiaburo

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

  1. “The inherent mobility of motor vehicles ... and the reduced expectation of privacy associated with them ... justify application of the vehicular exception '[e]ven in cases where an automobile [is] not immediately mobile.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.