121 Pa. Commw. 464 - Menosky v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2005
11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Welsh v. Wisconsin · Com., Dept. of Transp. v. Wysocki · Commonwealth v. Monarch · Glass v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety · 347 Pa. Super. 256 - Commonwealth v. Underwood
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We specifically held in Glass that the legislature did not intend to engraft the requirements of the exclusionary rule onto the statute in question. ... Where the results of [a breathalyzer test] are being used as evidence in a criminal trial, it is properly excluded in that proceeding if it is found to be the fruit of an illegal arrest. The basis for employing the exclusionary rule in Fourth Amendment situations is to deter police officials from engaging in improper conduct for the purpose of obtaining criminal convictions. Where the driver refuses to take a breathalyzer test, that refusal violates a condition for the continued privilege of operating a motor vehicle and is properly considered as a basis for suspension of that privilege. The driver's guilt or innocence of a criminal offense is not at issue in the license suspension proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“NOW, March 28, 1996, the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County in the above-captioned matter is hereby vacated and this case is remanded to the trial court for proceedings consistent with this opinion. Jurisdiction relinquished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well-settled that license suspension proceedings are administrative, not criminal in nature.”
1 later decision 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.