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← 481 Mass. 69 - Commonwealth v. Parker

Commonwealth v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Drayton · Commonwealth v. Wright

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

  1. “entitled to marshal the evidence and suggest inferences that the jury may draw from it”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A reasonable belief as to the potential loss or destruction of evidence may create exigent circumstances permitting the warrantless ... seizure of that evidence”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “need only be reasonable and possible based on the evidence before the jury.”
    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.