Commonwealth v. Baptiste’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Even accepting the judge’s inference or ultimate conclusion that Pagliaroni commenced the search of the vehicle while having some degree of an unfounded suspicion regarding the substance he had earlier observed on the center console, his subjective beliefs would not render the inventory search impermissible. See Commonwealth v. Garcia, 409 Mass. [675] at 679, 569 N.E.2d 385 [ (1991) ], quoting from Commonwealth v. Matchett, 386 Mass. 492, 510 , 436 N.E.2d 400 (1982) (“fact that the searching officer may have harbored a suspicion that evidence of criminal activity might be uncovered as a result of the search should not vitiate his obligation to conduct the inventory”).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 234 Md. App. 252 - State v. Paynter

2. “even had the defendant been advised that he could select a towing company and had exercised that choice, an inventory search would have nonetheless been conducted pursuant to the mandate”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1110 - Commonwealth v. Alicea

3. “[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
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1115 - Commonwealth v. Vollmer