Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 3/19/1980
Commonwealth v. Sylvia
Citations
- 402 N.E.2d 489
- 380 Mass. 180
- 1980 Mass. LEXIS 1063
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- motion to suppress denied where one and one-half hours passed between illegal arrest and confession
- sufficient temporal attenuation to dissipate taint when defendant confessed one and a half hours after his illegal arrest
- one and one-half hour interval sufficient
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Judges: Hennessey, Braucher, Kaplan, Liacos, Abrams
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21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. BradshawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-02-12· cited 232×
- Commonwealth v. RosarioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-02-12· cited 61×
- Commonwealth v. ShippsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-05-12· cited 52×
- Commonwealth v. EstabrookMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-09-28· cited 43×
- Commonwealth v. DamianoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-06-03· cited 42×
- Commonwealth v. CroweMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-01-22· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. CoteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-01· cited 33×
- Commonwealth v. LongMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-02-24· cited 26×
- Commonwealth v. ButlerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-08-14· cited 26×
- Commonwealth v. HunterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-02-20· cited 24×
- Commonwealth v. FredericqMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-04-24· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. ChongarlidesMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-08-27· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. GentileMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-01-14· cited 9×
- Commonwealth v. LundenMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-08-10· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. GrzembskiMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1984-03-16· cited 2×
- Commonwealth v. LoraMassachusetts Superior Court· 2003-09-12· cited 2×
- Commonwealth v. BilodeauMassachusetts Superior Court· 2004-06-10· cited 1×
- Commonwealth v. FloresMassachusetts Superior Court· 1996-08-05
- Commonwealth v. GonzalezMassachusetts Superior Court· 1997-12-17
- Commonwealth v. RichardsMassachusetts Superior Court· 2007-06-20
Cites
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