Commonwealth v. Quinn’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2021
8 state decisions
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 Terry v. Ohio · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Grandison · Commonwealth v. Stoute · Commonwealth v. Jimenez
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would the facts available to the officer at the moment of the seizure or the search 'warrant a [person] of reasonable caution in the belief' that the action taken was appropriate?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where a cooperative effort is involved, facts within the knowledge of one police officer have been relied on to justify the conduct of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.