61 Mass. App. Ct. 28 - Commonwealth v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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

1. “We are not aware of any legal precedent ... that would hold constitutionally supportable ... a police policy for automobile entries and searches to gather ownership documents precedent to towing of a car ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Terry

2. “given the omissions in the Commonwealth's proof, there is no way for a court to scrutinize what the policy encompassed and the precision with which the procedures set forth therein were defined,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 103 - Commonwealth v. Judge

3. “entry and search of a car to obtain documents therein is still a warrantless search”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1114 - Commonwealth v. Cotton