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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 12 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Commonwealth v. Monaghan.

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1 Commonwealth v. Monaghan Anchor
pasuperct · 1982
green “it is only the probability and not a prima facie showing of criminal activity that is a standard of probable cause.” 7
2 Commonwealth v. Wright
pasuperct · 2005
green “probable cause does not involve certainties, but rather 'the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men act.” 5

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