Muniz v. Mehlman

How courts have described this case

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

• an arresting officer has a duty to determine whether there is probable cause to arrest but not to investigate the suspect’s defense
• “In an action for an illegal arrest or imprisonment the burden is on the defendant to prove justification”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gutierrez v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-08-02· cited 118×
• Bancroft Dudley Hall v. Frederick J. Ochs, Frederick J. Ochs, S. Leo Judge, James P. Rogers, Thomas F. Murphy and Town of Milton
  First Circuit· 1987-05-26· cited 114×
• Julian v. Randazzo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-15· cited 73×
• Goddard v. Kelley
  D. Massachusetts· 2009-03-31· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Grise
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-08-13· cited 49×
• Carroll v. Gillespie
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-06-14· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1962-06-11· cited 39×
• Colling v. Hjelle
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1963-12-19· cited 32×
• Wynne v. Rosen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-05-10· cited 31×
• State v. Cowperthwaite
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-03-19· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Bouchard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1964-05-01· cited 28×
• Lincoln v. Shea
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-01-11· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Andrews
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-02-25· cited 26×
• Coblyn v. Kennedy's, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-04-15· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Howe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-07-10· cited 23×
• United States v. Burke
  D. Massachusetts· 1963-03-29· cited 20×
• Lunn v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-07-24· cited 20×
• Ana Maria Caeiro Palhava De Varella-Cid v. The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, and George H. Coleman
  First Circuit· 1986-03-26· cited 13×
• Bednarz v. Bednarz
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-08-10· cited 12×
• Seelig v. Harvard Cooperative Society
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1973-06-07· cited 12×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Carroll v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-26· cited 7,454×
• Commonwealth v. Gorman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-11-02· cited 73×
• Higgins v. Pratt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-09-12· cited 35×
• Wax v. McGrath
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-03-30· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Lyseth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-01-10· cited 31×
• Jackson v. Knowlton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1899-03-04· cited 28×
• Thompson v. Boston Publishing Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-02-15· cited 26×
• Keefe v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-12-28· cited 26×
• Phillips v. Fadden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1878-07-18· cited 25×
• Broussard v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-06-02· cited 22×
• Look v. Dean
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-10-15· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Cheney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1886-02-23· cited 21×
• Bannon v. Auger
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-02-29· cited 18×
• McDermott v. W. T. Grant Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-05-24· cited 17×
• Eldredge v. Mitchell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1913-05-22· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Cohen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1919-11-24· cited 5×
• Roseman v. Korb
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-02-25· cited 5×