Commonwealth v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Mendenhall · Commonwealth v. Grandison · Commonwealth v. Stoute · Commonwealth v. Thibeau · Commonwealth v. Barros
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.
“[M]erely running after a running person, without more, does not effect a seizure in the constitutional sense.”
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.