2017 Pa. Super. 217 - Commonwealth v. Ennels’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In addition, because the defendant prevailed on this issue before the suppression court, we consider only the defendant's evidence and so much of the Commonwealth's evidence as remains uncontradicted when read in the context of the record as a whole.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. McCleary · Commonwealth v. Johnson

2. “Birchfield makes plain that the police may not threaten enhanced punishment for refusing a blood test in order to obtain consent; whether that enhanced criminal punishment is (or can be) ultimately imposed is irrelevant to the question of whether the consent was valid.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Johnson · Com. v. Kehr, II, J.

3. “When reviewing the grant of a suppression motion, we must determine whether the record supports the trial court's factual findings and whether the legal conclusions drawn from those facts are correct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. McCleary · Commonwealth v. Coleman