Commonwealth v. Escalera’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 23 state decisions

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

1. “[t]hat evidence of the defendant's drug sales might also have been found in the defendant's vehicle does not detract from the conclusion that there was probable cause to search [his residence].”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1114 - Commonwealth v. Barbosa · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1122 - Commonwealth v. Sanders

2. “[n]o bright-line rule can establish whether there is a nexus between suspected drug dealing and a defendant's home,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1122 - Commonwealth v. Sanders · 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1112 - Commonwealth v. Mello

3. “Observations by police of a suspect on multiple occasions leaving his residence and proceeding directly to a prearranged location to sell drugs can support a reasonable inference that the suspect is a drug dealer who stores drugs or packages drugs for resale in his residence.”); id. at 328 (Information in the affidavit that reflects that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 270 F. Supp. 3d 485 - United States v. Brandao