Commonwealth v. Pagan’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
2 district · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · McGinnis v. Hadix · Fearance v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Silva · Commonwealth v. Grandison
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We need only point out that whether a gesture is furtive (and indicative of criminal activity or danger to police officers) or innocent depends on the factual context.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Commonwealth v. Gonsalves , 429 Mass. 658 , 664 (1999).”
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.