Commonwealth v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Sharpe · Allison v. United States · City of Boerne v. Flores · In re Clements · In re Disbarment of Pincham
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, the touchstone of our analysis of police conduct that results in a search or seizure is whether that conduct was reasonable.... The reasonableness of the particular conduct at issue here involves an evaluation of whether the police exceeded the permissible scope of the stop, which is an issue of proportion.... Judicial second-guessing of that exercise of judgment, especially in a rapidly developing situation, is inappropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is important to distinguish this case from the cases ... where the driver of a vehicle stopped for a traffic violation produces a valid driver's license and registration.”
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.