Commonwealth v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Michigan v. Long · Commonwealth v. Silva · Commonwealth v. Rodriguez · Commonwealth v. Moon
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.
“If safety concerns necessitate doing so, police may open a closed container”
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.