Commonwealth v. Tenney’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2003
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Amador-Gonzalez v. United States · 227 Pa. Super. 527 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Colcough v. Aytch · Evans v. Washington Hospital Center, Inc.
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.
“The term “pretext arrest” is used to describe an arrest made only to conduct a search without a warrant. “When the arrest is merely a subterfuge for conducting a search, the search is illegal in spite of the validity of the arrest. Amador-Gonzales [Gonzalez] v. United States, 391 F.2d 308 (5th Cir.1968).” Commonwealth v. Freeman, 222 Pa.Super. 178, 181 , 293 A.2d 84, 85 (1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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