Commonwealth v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2004
5 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 Glass v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety · Commonwealth v. Miles · Commonwealth v. Lee · Civitello v. Commonwealth
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as one of a group of peace officers vested with a power of arrest required that the officer possess such power where the arrest took place. The Court held that the arresting officer was an officer in fact, if not in law, and he was acting under full color of authority as a police officer. What was important was that factually the driver was placed under arrest, that he was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor, that he was requested to take a breathalyzer test and that he refused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It makes no difference that [the officer] had not been in hot pursuit of Evans across township lines. ...”
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.