Commonwealth v. Rosario

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant, said by informant to be selling drugs, observed by police at location and time predicted to drive up and begin “obviously looking for someone [he] intended to meet” there; investigation amounted to verification of tip
• informant told of defendant’s impending drug sale at particular location; part of police corroboration consisted of observing defendant and companion “looking up and down the street, in all directions, as if they were looking for somebody”
• defendant said by informant to be going to sell drugs was observed by police at the location and time predicted to drive up and begin “obviously looking for someone [he] intended to meet” there, a circumstance adding to the verification of the tip

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Va Meng Joe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-06-03· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Va Meng Joe
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-05-31· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Mercado
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2002-05-21

Cites

8 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×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• Commonwealth v. Borges
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-08-28· cited 162×
• Commonwealth v. Cast
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-11· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-08-04· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-11-20· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Paredes
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-12-23· cited 4×