198 Pa. Super. 39 - Commonwealth v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
November 1975
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Draper v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Harris v. United States
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the order suppressing evidence as having been obtained by illegal search and seizure in effect terminates the prosecution, it is definitive and appealable by the Commonwealth . . . .”
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.