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2009 Pa. Super. 230 - Commonwealth v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Commonwealth v. Hawkins · 2000 Pa. Super. 145 - Commonwealth v. Hennigan · 2009 Pa. Super. 137 - Commonwealth v. Gonzalez · 2004 Pa. Super. 244 - Commonwealth v. Frye

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

  1. “[i]f the prosecution can establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the illegally obtained evidence ultimately or inevitably would have been discovered by lawful means, the evidence is admissible. ' The purpose of the inevitable discovery rule is to block setting aside convictions that would have been obtained without police misconduct.”
    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.