Lowe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Stamper v. Commonwealth (1979), Frye v. Commonwealth (1986)
110 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
Most-quoted passages
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“There is no general constitutional right to discovery in a criminal case and the case of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), relied on by the defendant, did not establish one. Weatherford v. Bussey, 429 U.S. 545, 559 (1977). Our rule providing for discovery in a criminal case, Rule 3A:14, contains no provision requiring the Commonwealth to furnish the names and addresses of the eyewitnesses to a crime, (emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“There is no general constitutional right to discovery in a criminal case and the case of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), relied on by the defendant, did not establish one. Weatherford v. Bursey, 429 U.S. 545, 559 (1977)....At the core of this due process rule of fairness is that the evidence must be exculpatory, favorable to the accused^ Here, defendant’s argument urges us to assume that critical basic fact, without support from the record. There is not the slightest indication the Commonwealth withheld information favorable to defendant. Actually, the trial court, upon defendant’s motion, ordered the prosecutor to furnish exculpatory information “of whatever form, source or nature”, and there is no direct claim that this order was not complied with. Defendant merely contends that “if” the uncalled witnesses “would” testify that defendant was not one of the robbers, their testimony “would be exculpatory.” Such conjecture is insufficient to bring the motion here under the rule of Brady and Stover .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]hen the subject of a search is not in custody and the State attempts to justify a search on the basis of his consent, the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments require that it demonstrate that the consent was in fact voluntarily given, and not the result of duress or coercion, express or implied. Voluntariness is a question of fact to be determined from all the circumstances, and while the subject’s knowledge of a right to refuse is a factor to be taken into account, the prosecution is not required to demonstrate such knowledge as a prerequisite to establishing a voluntary consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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