2011 Pa. Super. 107 - Commonwealth v. Rosa’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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

1. “[consistent with the limitations imposed by the Wiretap Act and its statutory exclusionary rule, our Supreme Court has recognized that the practices it governs are inherently illegal and may be carried on by law enforcement agents only within closely circumscribed parameters. See Boettger v. Loverro, 521 Pa. 366 , 555 A.2d 1234, 1236-37 (Pa.1989). The following excerpt is illustrative: Pennsylvania’s Wiretapping and Surveillance Control Act, is a pervasive scheme of legislation which suspends an individual’s constitutional rights to privacy only for the limited purpose of permitting law enforcement officials, upon a showing of probable cause, to gather evidence necessary to bring about a criminal prosecution and conviction. The statute sets forth clearly and unambiguously by whom and under what circumstances these otherwise illegal practices and their derivative fruits may be used. [Commonwealth v.] Cruttenden, 976 A.2d [1176] at 1179 [ (Pa.Super.1269) ] (quoting Boettger, 555 A.2d at 1236-37 (emphasis in Boettger)).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2013 Pa. Super. 26 - Commonwealth v. Burgos