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← 66 MASSAPPCT 556 - Commonwealth v. Dasilva

Commonwealth v. Dasilva’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
February 2022
most recently cited

9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2022

9 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Commonwealth v. Upton · Van Allen v. Nicholson · Commonwealth v. Scott

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

  1. “[a]fter looking directly at the marked police cruiser, the defendant moved his right hand toward his waistband, fled up the stairs of the building where he was standing, and continued to flee even after [a police officer] ordered him to stop”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Police officers have a duty to investigate citizen reports of criminal activity, particularly if the conduct implicates the safety of the public”
    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.