Commonwealth v. John

How courts have described this case

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

• a discovery motion, by itself, seeking information about facts contained in the warrant affidavit is not sufficient to overcome the presumption of validity of the warrant
• \the privilege not only protects the release of the name of the informant but also forbids the disclosure of details that would in effect identify the informant\ [emphasis in original]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pinto
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-11-23· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Youngworth
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-06-03· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Hernandez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-01-26
• Commonwealth v. Saletino
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2003-05-02
• Commonwealth v. Whitfield
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2023-05-19
• Commonwealth v. Angel Pena-Lara
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2024-09-10

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Franks v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-26· cited 8,679×
• Commonwealth v. Amral
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-05-29· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-01· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Douzanis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-21· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Benlien
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-10-18· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Ramirez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-08-05· cited 24×