Commonwealth v. Morales’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
April 2022
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Commonwealth v. Scott · Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington · Commonwealth v. Jimenez · Commonwealth v. Isaiah I.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A search of a defendant 'lawfully could progressively extend into a strip [or a visual body cavity] search only if such a search was justified by probable cause to believe that the defendant had concealed [drugs] on his person or his clothing that would not otherwise be discovered by the usual search incident to arrest'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]trip or visual body cavity searches, by their very nature, are humiliating, demeaning, and terrifying experiences that, without question, constitute a substantial intrusion on one's personal privacy rights protected under the Fourth Amendment and art. 14.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At all times the potential harm to a detainee's health and dignity should be taken into account in assessing the reasonableness of the intrusion.”
2 later decisions 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.