Commonwealth v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2008
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Commonwealth v. Dugger · 318 Pa. Super. 240 - Commonwealth v. Price
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he mere fact that one or more of the anonymous sources provided a somewhat detailed account of the activities of the victims and their assailants preceding the murders does not, in and of itself, constitute a significant indicia of the reliability of that information. In addition, the fact that the police verified the address, phone number and general age given to them for Torres — whose address and phone number were listed in the phone book and were therefore freely available to the public — does not constitute a significant indicia of the reliability of the other information provided to the police by the anonymous sources.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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