Commonwealth v. O'Brien

How courts have described this case

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

• people under protective custody “are not under arrest, but are merely in need of treatment and temporary protection”
• “Once the police inform a defendant of his right to an independent medical examination . . . the police have no obligation to help him in exercising that right.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “Once the police inform a defendant of his right to an independent medical 9 examination . . . the police have no obligation to help him in exercising that right.” 10 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alfano v. Lynch
  First Circuit· 2017-02-01· cited 89×
• State v. Chakerian
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2015-05-11· cited 7×
• State v. Benoir
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2002-12-19· cited 5×
• State v. Chakerian
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2015-01-14

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. O'CONNOR
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-11-20· cited 97×
• Veiga v. McGee
  First Circuit· 1994-06-22· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Hampe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-02-17· cited 31×
• Ringuette v. City of Fall River
  D. Massachusetts· 1995-05-12· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Rosewarne
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-05-08· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-03-04· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. St. Hilaire
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-11-04· cited 4×