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← 475 MASS 583 - Commonwealth v. White

Commonwealth v. White’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
3
states following
August 2021
most recently cited

23 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Place · Segura 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “balanc[ing] the nature and quality of the intrusion on the individual's [interests under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution] against the importance of the government interests alleged to justify the intrusion.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “accept the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error but conduct an independent review of his ultimate findings and conclusions of law”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “may be found in the type of crime, the nature of the [evidence] sought , and normal inferences as to where such evidence may be found”
    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.