2001 Pa. Super. 385 - Commonwealth v. Firman’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Dugger · Commonwealth v. Nester · Dole v. Philadelphia · McKinley v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing · 2000 Pa. Super. 63 - Commonwealth v. Valentin
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) General powers. — Railroad and street railway policemen shall severally possess and exercise all the powers of a police officer in the City of Philadelphia, in and upon, and in the immediate and adjacent vicinity of, the property of the corporate authority or elsewhere within this Commonwealth while engaged in the discharge of their duties in pursuit of railroad, street railway or transportation system business.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“According to the undisputed testimony, PAT Officer Porter was on routine patrol driving in a PAT vehicle from one PAT property to another when he observed Appellee nearly collide with his PAT vehicle. While the Act does not define the precise duties to be executed by railway policemen, the uncontradict-ed suppression hearing testimony of PAT Officer Porter was that his job included patrolling PAT property, and he was required to drive from the PAT station to other PAT properties in order to achieve this goal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We caution, however, that it is only under facts similar to those in the instant case, where the officer is on routine patrol and acts to prevent an immediate threat to the welfare of PAT passengers or property, that we will validate an arrest conducted pursuant to the second provision of section 3303(a). Our decision in no way sanctions the authority of railway officers to engage in the general enforcement of our criminal laws or Motor Vehicle Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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