Commonwealth v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 2022
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Commonwealth v. Moffett · Commonwealth v. Zinser · Commonwealth v. Santaliz · Commonwealth v. DePeiza
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For more than seventy-five years, we have avoided an overly formulaic approach to the determination of whether there is [reasonable suspicion to detain] a person who is suspected of participation in a street-level drug transaction.”
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.