Commonwealth v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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

• in “extreme case,” suggestiveness of identification procedure of inanimate objects might rise to denial of due process
• law enforcement permitted to enter onto private driveway used by all visitors to home to observe outwardly visible areas of automobile parked in driveway
• “factor to be weighed in the expectation of privacy calculus is whether the defendant ‘took normal precautions to maintain his privacy’ ” [citation omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. D'ONOFRIO
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-02-11· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Pina
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-01-23· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Krisco Corp.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-08-02· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. a Juvenile (No. 2)
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-11-12· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Bresilla
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-01-16· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. McCarthy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-02-10· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Loughnane
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-11-22· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Fernandez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-10-04· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-02-13· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Buccella
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-07-09· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Hooker
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-10-02· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Dora
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-01-15· cited 14×
• State v. Daniel Jesus Cora
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2017-06-27· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-07-30· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Butterfield
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-03-19· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Hurd
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-02-16· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Powell
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-06-11· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. McCollins
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-01-27· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Serbagi
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-10-28· cited 1×
• Pueblo v. Jaime Soto Soto
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 2006-05-22· cited 1×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Rakas v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 6,103×
• United States v. Chadwick
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-21· cited 2,561×
• United States v. Martinez-Fuerte
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 2,153×
• United States v. Santana
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 1,382×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-02-10· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Hason
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-08-19· cited 117×
• United States v. Victor F. Magana
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-04-01· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Ortiz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-09-12· cited 86×
• United States v. John Richard Humphries
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-02-06· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Accaputo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-18· cited 75×
• United States v. Clifford Hersh
  Ninth Circuit· 1972-07-07· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Podgurski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-02· cited 60×
• United States v. Robert Dall
  First Circuit· 1979-11-13· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-02-27· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Cadoret
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-02-10· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Colella
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-10-05· cited 13×