Commonwealth v. Novak’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably United States v. Craig (1988), 281 Pa. Super. 541 - Commonwealth v. Luddy (1980)
6 federal appellate · 31 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 Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Ventresca · United States v. Harris · SGRO v. United States · Commonwealth v. Simmons
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a dozen purchases were made in the first week of January.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“based on an alleged illegal activity [drug sales] that occurred more than one month prior to the issuance of the warrant, and where there was no evidence of continued illegal activity in the interim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shown that the criminal activity continued up to or about [the] time [the warrant issued].”
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.