Commonwealth v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Colon (2007), Commonwealth v. Mubdi (2010)
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 United States v. Salvucci · Commonwealth v. Montanez · Commonwealth v. Santaliz · Commonwealth v. Amendola · Commonwealth v. Alvarado
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.
“Article 14 [of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights] does not relieve a defendant who unlawfully intruded on someone else's reasonable expectation of privacy from establishing that he had a reasonable expectation of privacy himself”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We do not construe our Amendola opinion [ Commonwealth v. Amendola , 406 Mass. 592 , 601 (1990),] as giving a defendant the right to assert the constitutional rights of someone in no way involved with his allegedly criminal conduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it would be more than inappropriate to permit a person fleeing from the police to rely on art. 14 [of the Massachusetts Constitution] to suppress evidence that he left on some third person's property”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taua
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.