Commonwealth v. Lopez

How courts have described this case

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

• including the duration of the guest's stay as a factor in the determination of actual authority to consent
• including the duration of the guest's stay as a factor in the determination of actual authority to consent
• extending actual or apparent authority needed to conduct warrantless consensual search of home to warrantless consensual entry of home
• \we do not consider [the officer's] intent in entering [the home] in determining whether the entry constituted a search in the constitutional sense\
• unknown woman who opened door to defendant's motel room/residence did not have apparent authority to consent to officer's warrantless entry and subsequent seizure of firearm
• in nonemergency situation, police seeking hotel manager did not gain legal consent to enter from woman not known to police and whose relationship to premises was uncertain

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-06-05· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Almonor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-04-23· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Arzola
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-03-04· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Santos
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-07-10· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Gentile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-01-14· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Molina
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-06-01· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Tatum
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-07-22· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Suters
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-10-07· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Rosario-Santiago
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2019-10-02
• Commonwealth v. Kao Lanois
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2025-05-23

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Payton v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-15· cited 7,618×
• United States v. Matlock
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-20· cited 3,648×
• Bumper v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 3,107×
• Illinois v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 2,581×
• Kyllo v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2001-06-11· cited 1,834×
• United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-19· cited 1,683×
• Stoner v. California
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-18· cited 1,576×
• Silverman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-03-06· cited 1,325×
• Georgia v. Randolph
  Supreme Court· 2006-03-22· cited 1,203×
• Albert Douglas Davis v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1964-01-17· cited 241×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-01-08· cited 225×
• Commonwealth v. Forde
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-05-22· cited 189×
• Commonwealth v. Jimenez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-12-12· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Isaiah I.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-02-09· cited 156×
• Commonwealth v. Paszko
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-02-14· cited 118×
• United States v. Kimoana
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-09-15· cited 114×
• United States v. Dean Jenkins
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-10-09· cited 113×
• United States v. Lawrence Ezekiel Reid, United States of America v. Wayne Blake
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-09-14· cited 84×
• United States v. William James McAlpine
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-11-27· cited 78×