Commonwealth v. Dessources’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Crawford v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Walker v. FRESNO POLICE DEPT. · Commonwealth v. Isaiah I.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the limitation on admissibility of evidence expressed in G. L. c. 276, § 1, does not bar the admission of new evidence discovered during a search incident to a lawful arrest ... when that new evidence is immediately apparent as contraband or evidence of other criminality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not operate as a bar to the admission of all evidence discovered in the course of a search incident to a lawful arrest other than weapons or evidence of the crime for which the defendant is arrested.”
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.