213 Pa. Super. 201 - Commonwealth v. Altizer’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1995
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Draper v. United States · Henry v. United States · One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`There was no time to get a warrant or anything and I felt that maybe a felony had been committed. I approached him and took them out of his pocket.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence which would lead a man of reasonable caution to believe that a felony had been committed.”
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.