Commonwealth v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• \any person present\ warrant permissible only with probable cause to believe that all persons present are involved in criminal activity
• confidential informant saw drug transactions firsthand, police surveillance revealed known drug players were active in premises
• occupants of the apartment were selling drugs to a “regular traffic of persons entering to make purchases”
• occupants of the apartment were selling drugs to a \regular traffic of persons entering to make purchases\
• persons occupying apartment selling drugs to a “regular traffic of persons entering to make purchases”
• search warrant for apartment and “any person present” was valid, as informant’s information was that occupants were selling drugs and that there was a regular traffic of persons entering to make purchases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Baker v. Monroe Township
  Third Circuit· 1995-05-01· cited 452×
• Commonwealth v. Jimenez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-12-12· cited 163×
• State v. Kinney
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1998-09-02· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Donahue
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-02-03· cited 97×
• Owens ex rel. Owens v. Lott
  Fourth Circuit· 2004-06-15· cited 91×
• Karen Burns v. David Loranger
  First Circuit· 1990-06-29· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Catanzaro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-02-13· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-02-05· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Gentile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-08-20· cited 52×
• State v. Boyer
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2007-10-16· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Sheppard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-10-26· cited 36×
• State v. Jackson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-08-23· cited 31×
• State v. Hinkel
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1985-04-12· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Reynolds
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-12-30· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Heidelberg
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-24· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. DiStefano
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-07-22· cited 28×
• District Attorney for the Plymouth District v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-24· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Kenneally
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-07-01· cited 20×
• State v. Prior
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-09-07· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Fernandes
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-03-26· cited 19×

Cites

48 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• United States v. Ventresca
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 4,171×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-11· cited 3,538×
• United States v. Di Re
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-19· cited 1,525×
• Gustafson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-11· cited 699×
• People v. Nieves
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-03-26· cited 182×
• State v. De Simone
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1972-03-27· cited 109×
• United States v. Frederick M. Micheli
  First Circuit· 1973-11-15· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Dinnall
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-08-13· cited 60×
• United States v. Gwendolyn E. Johnson
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-05-11· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Snow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-06-27· cited 58×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-09-15· cited 55×
• Will Parks Clay and Mattie Bell Anderson v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1957-10-28· cited 54×
• James R. Walker v. United States of America, Ethel E. Woody v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1964-01-28· cited 51×
• Salmon v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-12-06· cited 50×
• State v. Nabarro
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1974-07-23· cited 43×