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← 65 MASSAPPCT 227 - Commonwealth v. Costa

Commonwealth v. Costa’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Ohio v. Robinette · New York v. Quarles

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

  1. “[a] Miranda-like warning is not a necessary prerequisite to a valid consent [to search] under the Fourth Amendment [to the United States Constitution] or under art. 14 [of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[w]e accept the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error, 'but conduct an independent review of his ultimate findings and conclusions of law.'”
    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.