Commonwealth v. Sweet’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 280 Pa. Super. 20 - Commonwealth v. Benson (1980), 353 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Speights (1986)
29 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 Commonwealth v. Lopinson · Commonwealth v. Petrakovich · 11 Cal. 3d 146 - Adams v. Department of Motor Vehicles · 158 Tex. Crim. 313 - Hill v. State · 14 N.C. App. 485 - State v. Allen
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The breathalyzer test is a chemical intoxication test designed to determine the alcoholic content of a breath sample provided by a suspect. The sample which is introduced by having the suspect blow alveolar air into a tube bubbles through a test ampoule. The ampoule is a glass container holding three cubic centimeters of a .025 percent potassium dichromate in a 50 percent solution of sulphuric acid. The alcohol in the breath sample effects a change in color and in the light transmissibility of the solution correlative to the amount of alcohol present. The changes in fight transmissibility is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. The test was administered by qualified personnel. 2. The equipment used was approved by the Secretary of Transportation. 3. The test was performed at the direction of a police officer having reasonable grounds to believe the test subject to have been driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. the right of cross-examination extends beyond the subjects testified to in direct testimony and includes the right to examine on any facts tending to refute “inferences or deductions” arising from matters testified to on direct.”
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.