1999 Pa. Super. 154 - Commonwealth v. Rosa’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2020
14 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 Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Michigan v. Long · Knowles v. Iowa · Commonwealth v. DeWitt
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.
“to return to his vehicle without searching the bag in question, [the officer] would have been taking a grave risk that [the defendant] would remove a weapon from the bag and use it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re OJ“constitutional safeguards do not require an officer to gamble with his life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re OJ
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.