Commonwealth v. Mendes

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]t is inconclusive on the question of voluntariness that the police announced their intention to seek a search warrant if consent were not forthcoming”
• owner’s consent to a search of a guest’s closet

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

37 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-24· cited 198×
• Commonwealth v. Caine
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-11-13· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-10-27· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Dougan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-02-14· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Berry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-04-14· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Aguiar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-14· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Leaster
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-09-05· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Harmond
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-11-06· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Deeran
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-10-26· cited 34×
• State v. Forbes
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1982-05-06· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1978-04-18· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Wahlstrom
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-04-27· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Kelly
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1973-08-23· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1976-07-23· cited 17×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1984-03-02· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Flaherty
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1973-05-08· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Hogg
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1976-04-02· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Buchanan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-07-22· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Lopes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-09-08· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-03-11· cited 10×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Gilbert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,797×
• Bumper v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 3,107×
• Frazier v. Cupp
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-23· cited 1,468×
• People v. Gorg
  California Supreme Court· 1955-12-16· cited 317×
• Judd v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1951-05-19· cited 299×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-04-27· cited 145×
• United States v. Sferas (Two Cases). United States v. Skally
  Seventh Circuit· 1954-04-05· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Connolly
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-01-28· cited 99×
• United States v. Blok
  D.C. Circuit· 1951-04-12· cited 98×
• William C. Drummond v. United States of America, Alphonse Vincent Castaldi v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1965-09-29· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Welcome
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1964-10-29· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Stone
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-06-24· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. McLaughlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-03-09· cited 75×
• Georgia Inez Holzhey v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1955-06-30· cited 61×