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← 428 MASS 766 - Commonwealth v. Snell

Commonwealth v. Snell’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
3
states following
October 2022
most recently cited

49 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Adjutant (2005), Commonwealth v. Linton (2010)

49 state decisions

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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 · Duvall v. United States · Fisher v. United States · Thompson v. Louisiana · Wayne v. United States

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

  1. “applies when the purpose of the police entry is not to gather evidence of criminal activity but rather, because of an emergency, to respond to an immediate need for assistance for the protection of life or property.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Arias · 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1111 - Commonwealth v. Qadir
  2. “[T]he burden of proof is on the Commonwealth to show that the warrantless entry falls within the exception [to the warrant requirement] and that there were reasonable grounds for the ... police to believe (an objective standard) that an emergency existed.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1111 - Commonwealth v. Qadir
  3. “which often calls for rapid police response designed to prevent further injury to a victim, to see whether a threat against a victim has been carried out, or to ascertain whether some other grave misfortune has befallen a victim.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 633 - Commonwealth v. Raspberry

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.