90 Mass. App. Ct. 622 - Commonwealth v. Vick’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2022
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Bell v. Wolfish · Chimel v. California · United States v. Mendenhall · Schmerber v. State of California
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.
“no touching or probing or otherwise opening or manipulating of the defendant's anal cavity, and the bag of drugs was easily removed without in any way endangering the defendant's health or safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“portion of th[e] item [was] within [the defendant's] rectum or within any sort of orifice of his body”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[m]anual body cavity searches constitute an even greater intrusion on a person's privacy rights,”
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.