2012 Pa. Super. 202 - Commonwealth v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Knights · Kemmerer v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Frankel · Commonwealth v. DeWitt · Devlin v. City of Philadelphia
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) The observations of officers. (ii) Information provided by others. (iii) The activities of the offender. (iv) Information provided by the offender. (v) The experience of the officers with the offender. (vi) The experience of officers in similar circumstances. (vii) The prior criminal and supervisory history of the offender. (viii) The need to verify compliance with the conditions of supervision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exists only where the officer is able to articulate specific observations which, in conjunction with reasonable inferences derived from those observations, led him reasonably to conclude, in light of his experience, that criminal activity was afoot and that the person he stopped was involved in that activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]re in a supervisory relationship with their offenders. The purpose of this supervision is to assist the offenders in their rehabilitation and reassimilation into the community and to protect the public. Supervision practices shall reflect the balance of enforcement of the conditions of parole and case management techniques to maximize successful parole completion through effective reentry to society. As such, probationers and parolees are subject to general and individual rules of conduct and supervision described at sentencing and/or in the parole agreement.”
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.