Commonwealth v. Rivera

How courts have described this case

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

• known informant set up drug deal with defendant, described automobile to be used, and predicted time and place of arrival
• informant set up buy from defendant but initially did not show up, a circumstance that did not affect the reliability of the tip or the validity of defendant’s stop and arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Va Meng Joe
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-05-31· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Munera
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-09-20· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Kotlyarevskiy
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-09-09· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Fleming
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-09-22· cited 3×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Commonwealth v. Cast
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-11· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Sherry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-07-01· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Bongarzone
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-10-13· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Borans
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-09-04· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Therrien
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-05-06· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Melendez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-03-19· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-01-09· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Grzembski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-12-13· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Harrison
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-01-12· cited 11×