Commonwealth v. DeMasi

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reasonable nexus for seizure of stolen property unrelated to robbery being investigated under warrant
• when police are lawfully present “on certain premises pursuant to a valid search warrant, they have a right to seize articles not named in the warrant if they know or have probable cause to believe” in the illegality of the articles

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Peacher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-14· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-05-10· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-04-01· cited 46×
• People v. Franklin
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1982-02-08· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Fudge
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-07-16· cited 23×
• Bynum v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-05-08· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-12-11· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Pierre
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-01-15· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Ventola
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1973-09-07· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-09-02· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Gatley
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1981-02-13

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wojcik
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-02-02· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-03-13· cited 32×