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← 481 Mass. 437 - Commonwealth v. Pridgett

Commonwealth v. Pridgett’s Empirical Analysis

2019

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2022
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Commonwealth v. Brzezinski · Commonwealth v. Storey · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Hason

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

  1. “Probable cause to arrest exists when, at the moment of arrest, the facts and circumstances within the knowledge of the police are enough to warrant a prudent person in believing that the individual arrested has committed or was committing an offense”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “make an independent determination of the correctness of the judge's application of constitutional principles to the facts as found.”
    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.