Commonwealth v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Silva · Commonwealth v. Jimenez
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he standard for a patfrisk is the same as the standard required to justify an order to the occupants of a vehicle stopped for traffic violations to leave the vehicle.”
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.