Commonwealth v. McDevitt’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 2014
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Cady v. Dombrowski · Singleton v. Christ the Servant Evangelical Lutheran Church
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Local police officers are charged with ‘community caretaking functions, totally divorced from the detection, investigation, or acquisition of evidence relating to the violation of a criminal statute.’ Cady v. Dombowski, 413 U.S. 433, 441 (1973).” Commonwealth v. Evans, 436 Mass. 369, 372 (2002). The decision to make a well-being check must be reasonable in light of an objective basis for believing that the defendant’s safety and well-being may be in jeopardy. See Commonwealth v. Murdough, 428 Mass. 760, 762 (1999). That concern extends, in certain circumstances, to the safety of the public as well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Aman
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.