87 Mass. App. Ct. 448 - Commonwealth v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 2022
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · 134 S. Ct. 2473 - Riley v. Cal. United States · Commonwealth v. Santaliz · Commonwealth v. Cheek
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While there could have been an innocent explanation for the events observed by [the detective], he was entitled to view them through the lens of his specialized training and experience and conclude that more than mere coincidence was involved”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sufficient to contribute to the circumstantial evidence that a drug transaction had occurred”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“small enough to fit in the palm of a hand,”
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.