2002 Pa. Super. 66 - Commonwealth v. Slonaker’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2024
16 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 Commonwealth v. Whitmyer · Commonwealth v. Gleason · Commonwealth v. Stevenson · 382 Pa. Super. 288 - Commonwealth v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Roudybush
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen we review the ruling of a suppression court, we must determine whether its factual findings are supported by the record. Where the defendant challenges an adverse ruling of the suppression court, we will consider only the evidence for the prosecution and whatever evidence for the defense which is uncontradicted on the record as a whole; if there is support on the record, we are bound by the suppression court, and we may reverse that court only if the legal conclusions drawn from these facts are erroneous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the alleged basis of a vehicle stop is to permit a determination whether there has been compliance with the Motor Vehicle Code of this Commonwealth, it is [i]ncumbent upon the officer to articulate specific facts possessed by him, at the time of the questioned stop, which would provide probable cause to believe that the vehicle or the driver was in violation of some provision of the Code.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“articulable and reasonable grounds to suspect a violation”
2 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.