Commonwealth v. Upton

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘The informant’s veracity and the basis of his knowledge are still important but, where the tip is adequately corroborated, they are not elements indispensible to a finding of probable cause”
• criticizing the “totality of the circumstances” test for probable cause
• rev. on other grounds, 466 U.S. 727 (1984)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Massachusetts v. Upton
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 821×
• Commonwealth v. Upton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-04-01· cited 401×
• Eisenhauer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-03-23· cited 175×
• Commonwealth v. Wren
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-04-19· cited 97×
• Potts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-22· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Bottari
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-08-28· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Atchue
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-11-19· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-04-04· cited 60×
• United States v. Glenston P. Laws
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-12-09· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Alfonso A.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-01-06· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-02-05· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Burt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-01-22· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Rosa
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1984-02-09· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-08-04· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Oakes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-03-20· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Ramos
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-04-19· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-04-07· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Doherty
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-03-26· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Melendez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-03-19· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Carrasco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-07-06· cited 33×

Cites

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

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• United States v. Ventresca
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 4,171×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• Ker v. California
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-10· cited 3,146×
• Kastigar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 2,510×
• United States v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 1,806×
• McCray v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-24· cited 1,521×
• Harris v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1947-06-09· cited 1,370×
• Commonwealth v. Soares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-08· cited 576×
• United States v. Michael G. Thevis, Alton Bart Hood, Global Industries, Inc., Anna Jeanette Evans
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-01-11· cited 425×
• Commonwealth v. Bowden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-09· cited 300×
• United States v. Norman Turkish
  Second Circuit· 1980-05-27· cited 219×
• United States v. Thomas E. Flaherty, United States of America v. James R. Kearns, Jr., United States of America v. Stuart H. Wahl
  First Circuit· 1981-11-12· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Cundriff
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-12-16· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-02-03· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-12-30· cited 112×
• District Attorney for the Suffolk District v. Watson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-10-28· cited 110×