2011 Pa. Super. 96 - Commonwealth v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Answering a request to disclose a name is likely to be so insignificant in the scheme of things as to be incriminating only in unusual circumstances. In every criminal case, it is known and must be known who has been arrested and who is being tried. Even witnesses who plan to invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege answer when their names are called to take the stand. Still, a case may arise where there is a substantial allegation that furnishing identity at the time of a stop would have given the police a link in the chain of evidence needed to convict the individual of a separate offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2011 Pa. Super. 215 - Commonwealth v. Durr

2. “The Fifth Amendment provides “no person • .., shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himselff.]” U.S. Const, amend. V. This prohibition not only permits an individual to refuse to testify against himself when he is a defendant but also privileges him not- to answer official questions put to him in any other proceeding, civil or criminal, formal or informal, where the answers might incriminate him in future criminal proceedings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Davis