Commonwealth v. Tavares’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2023
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Whren 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the defendant objected to the admission of [the GPS records] at trial, we review for prejudicial error . . . . We must first determine whether the judge committed an error of law or an abuse of discretion. . . . If we find such an error, we then ask whether it was prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Commonwealth bears the burden of establishing that the evidence it has obtained and intends to use is sufficiently attenuated from the underlying illegality so as to be purged from its taint”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint”
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.