Cook v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Mills v. Commonwealth (1999), Commonwealth v. Neal (2002)
31 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Schmerber v. State of California · United States v. Matlock
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a careful scrutiny of all the surrounding circumstances in a specific case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is fundamental that all searches without a warrant are unreasonable unless it can be shown that they come within one of the exceptions to the rule that a search must be made pursuant to a valid warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington v. Com.“an objective evaluation of police conduct and not ... the defendant's subjective perception of reality.”
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.