140 Pa. Commw. 317 - McCallum v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2016
19 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 Com., Dept. of Transp. v. O'CONNELL · 26 Pa. Commw. 201 - Bureau of Traffic Safety v. Dreisbach · 103 Pa. Commw. 148 - Waldspurger v. Commonwealth · 121 Pa. Commw. 464 - Menosky v. Commonwealth · 107 Pa. Commw. 213 - Commonwealth v. Mulholland
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a reasonable person in the position of a police officer, viewing the facts and circumstances as they appeared to the officer at the time, could conclude that the driver drove his car while under the influence of alcohol.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Reasonable grounds’ does not require a police officer to witness the driver driving his car. In addition, the police officer's reasonable grounds will not be rendered void if the belief is later discovered to be erroneous. The police officer's belief must only be objective in light of the surrounding circumstances, and ‘the existence of reasonable alternative conclusions does not necessarily preclude [the arresting officer’s] actual belief from being reasonable.'”
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.