Commonwealth v. Fortune

How courts have described this case

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

• “when a person is free to leave [or close the door], the police need no justification to conduct an interrogation”
• “Police officers have a duty to investigate citizen reports of criminal activity, particularly if the conduct implicates the safety of the public, as drunk driving does”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Gomes
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-09-19· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Dasilva
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-06-20· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-03-04· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Virgilio
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-05-24· cited 3×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Stoute
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-05-30· cited 178×
• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-12-26· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Barros
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-09-28· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Alvarado
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-07-23· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Smigliano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-05-20· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-04-15· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Hilton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-07-15· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Love
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-10-08· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Lubiejewski
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-05-23· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Manning
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-08-05· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Barros
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-07-10· cited 6×