Todd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2012
19 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 Mincey v. Arizona · Ake v. Oklahoma · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Michigan v. Tucker · Jett v. Commonwealth
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e do not question the right of the police to respond to emergency situations. Numerous states and federal cases have recognized that the Fourth Amendment does not bar police officers from making warrantless entries and searches when they reasonably believe that a person within is in immediate need of aid.”
3 later decisions 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.