Commonwealth v. Rathfon’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2016
7 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 Payton v. New York · Hudson v. Palmer · Minnesota v. Olson · Commonwealth v. Brundidge · Commonwealth v. Lewis
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is a chance that people take when people come into their house. If you invite a police officer to a party and he sees what you don’t want him to see that’s your tough luck. And certainly inviting a woman into the house, if she were a licensed officer and she were there under these circumstances, that is a chance you take, you have no expectation of privacy. It’s nothing at all like sending someone down there surreptitiously and breaking into the house.””
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.