Commonwealth v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
July 1978
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Ker v. State of California · Nathanson v. United States · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ensor v. Cummings · 205 Pa. Super. 599 - Commonwealth v. Smyser
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.
““. . . [A] procedure, in which a magistrate accepts an affiant’s conclusions and ‘rubber-stamps’ a search warrant, is not constitutionally permitted.””
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.