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← 2000 Pa. Super. 83 - Commonwealth v. Watkins

2000 Pa. Super. 83 - Commonwealth v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2015
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Mathis v. United States · Commonwealth v. Davenport · Commonwealth v. Ellis · Commonwealth v. Nester

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he basis for the detention; its length; its location; whether the suspect was transported against his or her will, how far, and why; whether restraints were used; whether the law enforcement officer showed, threatened or used force; and the investigative methods employed to confirm or dispel suspicions.”
    3 later decisions 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.