Commonwealth v. Oliveira’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Grace v. Bank Leumi Trust Co. · Commonwealth v. Isaiah I. · Commonwealth v. Thibeau · Commonwealth v. Isaiah I. · Commonwealth v. Jones-Pannell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the police's true purpose for searching the vehicle is investigative, the seizure of the vehicle may not be justified as a precursor to an inventory search, and must instead be justified as an investigative search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“police have no obligation to locate or telephone the registered owner to determine his or her wishes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a lawful and practical alternative to impoundment of the vehicle.”
1 later decision 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.