Commonwealth v. Tanchyn’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably State v. Gordon (1976), Walton v. City of Roanoke (1963)
26 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Mapp v. Ohio · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Burdeau v. McDowell · Holt 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is our opinion that there was no violation of the fourth Amendment in this case because the seizure of appellant’s blood was not made by state officials but was performed by private individuals, to wit, the hospital personnel. Whether the appellant impliedly consented to the taking of the blood by the hospital technicians is immaterial. What was done was for the benefit of the appellant and we assume that if he had been entirely normal he would have willingly consented to the procedure, just as nearly every person does when he enters a hospital or doctor’s office for care and treatment. No agents or servants of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were present nor did they in any way direct or control the decision of the doctors or technicians to take blood from the appellant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions, from all unreasonable searches and seizures, and no warrant to search any place, or to seize any person or thing, shall issue without describing them as near as may be, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Comeaux““No person * * * shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.””
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.