Commonwealth v. Stephens

How courts have described this case

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

• inference of intent to distribute permitted where portion of defendant's cocaine packaged in knotted smaller bags
• exit order valid where trooper saw driver hold black object in chest area and quickly lower it and saw \hundreds of dollars\ and altered plastic bags consistent with packaging of illegal drugs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Jones-Pannell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-08-14· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Ilya I., a juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-02-13· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Duart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-08-17· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-09-15· cited 22×
• Deshawn Lamont Redfield v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-30· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Rosado
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-08-30· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-03-03· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Cabrera
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-02-25· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Myers
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-07-17· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. DiCicco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-02-26· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Dorazio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-09-02· cited 12×
• Kimbroughtillery v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-05-26· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-12-07· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Velez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-07-16· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Gorman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-11-01· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-08-29· cited 7×
• State v. Andrade-Reyes
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2019-06-07· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Dessources
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-05-08· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Mora
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-10-04· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Alvarado
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-06-27· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Allen v. McCurry
  Supreme Court· 1980-12-09· cited 4,909×
• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Commonwealth v. Latimore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
• United States v. Mendoza
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-10· cited 957×
• Standefer v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-09· cited 693×
• United States v. Oppenheimer
  Supreme Court· 1916-12-04· cited 417×
• Commonwealth v. Yesilciman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-02-22· cited 194×
• Commonwealth v. Stoute
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-05-30· cited 178×
• State v. Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1977-12-06· cited 154×
• Commonwealth v. Storey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-06-25· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Fraser
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-07-02· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Santaliz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-24· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. DePeiza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-06-15· cited 126×
• United States v. James C. Hendricks
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-02-21· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-16· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Va Meng Joe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-06-03· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-04-05· cited 112×
• United States v. Frank J. Maybusher
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-06-15· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Wren
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-04-19· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-11-05· cited 92×