Commonwealth v. Molina

How courts have described this case

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

• intimating that no warrant needed if “officers were in hot pursuit of a fleeing suspect in the immediate aftermath of a crime” without mention of additional exigencies
• considering strength of nontainted evidence compared to tainted evidence in assessing effect of error
• constitutional errors preserved before or during trial reviewed to determine whether they are “harmless beyond a reasonable doubt”
• police cannot create the exigency leading to a warrantless arrest and then treat it as justification for the arrest
• the Fourth Amendment and art. 14 \scrupulously guard against the intrusion of the government into a citizen's home without a warrant\
• “Implicit in the test itself is that police officers cannot deliberately create the exigency that leads to the warrantless arrest”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Tyree
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-01-08· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Jewett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-06-11· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Alexis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-12-14· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Muniz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-03-02· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Almonor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-04-23· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Ramos
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-02-26· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Cheremond
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-01-30· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Molina
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-01-29· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. McAfee
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-05-09· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Rosado
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-08-30· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Garner
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-09-19· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Kirschner
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-12-20· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Polanco
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-02-20· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Ilges
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-09-14· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Cataldo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-06-28· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Lima
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-08-16· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Gentle
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-08-25· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-07-03· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Sorenson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2020-11-16
• Commonwealth v. Mercado
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-10-29

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• McDonald v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-12-20· cited 1,736×
• Milton v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 824×
• New York v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 658×
• Commonwealth v. Forde
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-05-22· cited 189×
• Commonwealth v. Vinnie
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-08-12· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Hosey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-09-09· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Perrot
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-06-04· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Marini
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-06-26· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-07-01· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Huffman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-01-19· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Pietrass
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-27· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Eckert
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-05-18· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Vuthy Seng
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-04-23· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Marquez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-06-20· cited 26×