87 Mass. App. Ct. 687 - Commonwealth v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Mendenhall · Whren v. United States · Michigan v. Chesternut · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · 133 S. Ct. 1958 - Maryland v. King
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.
“When reviewing a decision on a motion to suppress, we accept the judge's findings of fact absent clear error, but make an independent determination whether the judge correctly applied constitutional principles to the facts as found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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