Commonwealth v. Ocasio’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Georgia v. Randolph · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Bradshaw · 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e have to admit that we are drawing a fine line; if a potential defendant with self-interest in objecting is in fact at the door and objects, the co-tenant’s permission does not suffice for a reasonable search, whereas the potential objector, nearby but not invited to take part in the threshold colloquy, loses out.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ware“process of 'effecting' [defendant's] arrest continued at least through the officers' placement of him in the cruiser”
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.