2016 Pa. Super. 280 - Commonwealth v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2025
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Knights · Commonwealth v. Williams · United States v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Hughes · Commonwealth v. Brown
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.
“Pennsylvania courts historically invalidated probation officers' searches and subsequent seizures of evidence where the probation officers essentially 'switched hats,' and, in all relevant respects, became police officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by statutorily circumventing the warrant requirement, based on reasonable suspicion, instead of the heightened standard of probable cause.”
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.