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← 482 Mass. 694 - Commonwealth v. Tavares

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.

  1. “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
  2. “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
  3. “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.