Commonwealth v. Spence

How courts have described this case

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

• it is possible to satisfy the Aguilar-Spinelli test when neither the basis of knowledge prong, nor the veracity prong have been met, if the details of the tip are corroborated by independent police observation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-12-26· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Willis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-07-15· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Grinkley
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-12-16· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Melendez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-03-19· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-10-22· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Paredes
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-12-23· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Ramon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-01-07· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. DeLaCruz
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1995-07-26
• Commonwealth v. Hehir
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2009-06-22

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• 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. Stevens
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-06-02· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Bottari
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-08-28· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. David
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-04-02· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Kane
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-12-01· cited 13×