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← 89 MASSAPPCT 448 - Commonwealth v. Meneide

Commonwealth v. Meneide’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Chimel v. California · Commonwealth v. Silva · Commonwealth v. Jimenez

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

  1. “The officer was not required to know the exact nature of the object being concealed in order to have an objectively reasonable concern for his safety.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[I]t does not take much for a police officer to establish a reasonable basis to justify an exit order or search based on safety concerns.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The smell of ... unburnt marijuana, standing alone, no longer provides ... reasonable suspicion,”
    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.