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← 81 MASSAPPCT 713 - Commonwealth v. Carnes

Commonwealth v. Carnes’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Rawlings v. Kentucky · Adair v. United States · Williams v. United States · United States v. Morgan · Commonwealth v. Montanez

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

  1. “Here, the judge's conclusion of abandonment requires us to consider whether the defendant manifested a subjective expectation of privacy in the place searched, and in the contents of [the bag], [that] 'could be considered objectively reasonable or legitimate.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “A search in the constitutional sense requires that the defendant must have had a subjective expectation of privacy in the item or place searched, and that such expectation must have been one that society recognizes as reasonable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “abandonment is a question of intent, which may be inferred from words, behavior, and other objective facts.”
    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.