Commonwealth v. Fiore’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably United States v. Tibolt (1995), Commonwealth v. Bongarzone (1983)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Ventresca · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems clear to us that a house break without more— as set out in the affidavit — raises the possibility of danger to an occupant and of the continued presence of an intruder and indicates the need to secure the premises. In such circumstances ‘ [t]he right of the police to enter and investigate in an emergency without the accompanying intent to either search or arrest is inherent in the very nature of their duties as peace officers.’. . .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he right of the police to enter and investigate in an emergency without the accompanying intent to either search or arrest is inherent in the very nature of their duties as peace officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carroll v. State
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.