Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 26 Pa. Commw. 201 - Bureau of Traffic Safety v. Dreisbach · 76 Pa. Commw. 483 - Gresh v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety · 73 Pa. Commw. 318 - Wisniewski v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Krishak · Commonwealth v. O'Neill
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or ‘reasonable grounds’ to exist, the police officer obviously need not be correct in his belief that the motorist had been driving while intoxicated. We are dealing here with the authority to request a person to submit to a chemical test and not with the admission into evidence of the result of such a test. The only valid inquiry on this issue at the de novo hearing is whether, viewing the facts and circumstances as they appeared at the time, a reasonable person in the position of the police officer could have concluded that the motorist was operating the vehicle and under the influence of intoxicating liquor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.