Commonwealth v. McCarthy

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that reviewing court evaluates police action in its context and “not with twenty-twenty hindsight”
• indicating that reviewing court evaluates police action in its context and \not with twenty-twenty hindsight\
• denying motion to suppress evidence found in defendant’s handbag when officer believed it may have contained cause of her overdose
• denying motion to suppress evidence found in defendant's handbag when officer believed it may have contained cause for her overdose
• denying motion to suppress evidence when officer searched bag of unconscious woman, despite presence of emergency medical technicians
• denying motion to suppress evidence when officer searched bag of unconscious woman, despite presence of emergency medical technicians

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Kaeppeler
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-12-30· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Raspberry
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-07-27· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Cunningham
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2009-03-04

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lewis L. Wayne v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1963-04-04· cited 479×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-02-03· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Snell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-02-02· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Grinkley
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-12-16· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Bates
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1990-01-12· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Ortiz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-01-08· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Kirschner
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-12-20· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Ringgard
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-02-08· cited 10×