Com. v. EM’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Torres (2001), 2002 Pa. Super. 383 - Commonwealth v. Reppert (2002)
33 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 · Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · United States v. Cortez
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n investigatory stop is justified only if the detaining officer can point to specific and articulable facts which, in conjunction with rational interference derived from those facts, give rise to a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity and therefore warrant the intrusion.”
5 later decisions 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.