Horne v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Frye v. Commonwealth (1986), Gray v. Commonwealth (1987)
58 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 Carroll v. United States · Florida v. Royer · Brown v. Illinois · Gerstein v. Pugh · Dunaway v. New York
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]ot every violation of the requirement that a suspect be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay results in the exclusion of evidence. Only in a situation where the delay in taking a suspect before a magistrate resulted in the loss of exculpatory evidence have we concluded that the defendant’s due process rights were violated and reversed his conviction. In all other cases, though we have acknowledged violation of the statute, we found no deprivation of the defendant’s constitutional rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ejven though the officers were acting on the basis of warrants, [the defendant] would have us analyze the motive of the police. We think such an approach would be unworkable. It would require a judge in every squad car. In every case of an arrest pursuant to a warrant, the court would have to look over the shoulder of the police, and ask, “Why is he really arresting this person?” We reject this subjective approach in a case such as this where the officers were executing warrants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.