2013 Pa. Super. 60 - Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In addressing a challenge to a trial court’s denial of a suppression motion, we are limited to determining whether the factual findings are supported by the record and whether the legal conclusions drawn from those facts are correct. Since the Commonwealth prevailed in the suppression court, we may consider only the evidence of the Commonwealth and so much of the evidence for the defense as it remains uncontradicted when read in the context of the record as a whole. Where the record supports the factual findings of the trial court, we are bound by those facts and may reverse only if the legal conclusions drawn therefrom are in error.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 Pa. Super. 152 - Commonwealth v. Yong · 2014 Pa. Super. 65 - Commonwealth v. Scarborough

2. “continuously during not less than the last 100 feet traveled by the vehicle before turning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2016 Pa. Super. 99 - Commonwealth v. Slattery

3. “until the movement can be made with reasonable safety[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2016 Pa. Super. 99 - Commonwealth v. Slattery