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← 80 MASSAPPCT 162 - Commonwealth v. Colon

Commonwealth v. Colon’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Figueroa v. United States · Commonwealth v. Cinelli · Commonwealth v. O'Day · Commonwealth v. Cruz · Commonwealth v. Pina

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a sufficient nexus between the defendant's drug-selling activity and his residence to establish probable cause to search the residence.”
    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.