Commonwealth v. Mendes’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Fahy v. Connecticut · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
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.
“As the defendants concede, [confidential informant B's (CSB) ] reliability was established through previous instances where CSB's information led to the confiscation of illegal narcotics. With respect to [confidential informant A,] 'the motion judge relied on the extent of detail in the informant's information, police corroboration of a portion of that detail, and police knowledge of the identity and whereabouts of the informant'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“reliability was established through previous instances where [the informant's] information led to the confiscation of illegal narcotics”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“' that the improperly admitted evidence 'might have had' on the fact finder or the findings”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.