242 Pa. Super. 144 - Commonwealth v. Frye’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably 392 Pa. Super. 100 - Commonwealth v. Fromal (1990), 407 Pa. Super. 415 - Commonwealth v. Davis (1991)
34 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We must further be mindful `that only the probability, and not a prima facie showing, of criminal activity is the standard of probable cause, Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89, 96 , 85 S.Ct. 223 , 13 L.Ed.2d 142 (1964); that affidavits of probable cause are tested by much less rigorous standards than those governing the admissibility of evidence at trial, McCray v. Illinois, 386 U.S. 300, 311 , 87 S.Ct. 1056 , 18 L.Ed.2d 62 (1967); that in judging probable cause issuing magistrates are not to be confined by niggardly limitations or by restrictions on the use of their common sense, United States v. Ventresca, 380 U.S. 102, 108 , 85 S.Ct. 741 , 13 L.Ed.2d 684 (1965); and that their determination of probable cause should be paid great deference by reviewing courts. Jones v. United States, 362 U.S. 257, 270-271 , 80 S.Ct. 725 , 4 L.Ed.2d 697 (1960).' Spinelli, supra, 393 U.S. 410, at 419 , 89 S.Ct. 584, at 590 , 21 L.Ed.2d 637, at 645 ." Commonwealth v. Frye, 242 Pa.Super. 144, 148 , 363 A.2d 1201, 1203 (1976).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... no indication of where the transaction took place, how long it took, how long [the defendant] was gone, or what led the girls to conclude that he had gone to his apartment. * # # # # # Probable cause to believe that a man has committed a crime on the street does not necessarily give rise to probable cause to search his home. [The suppression court judge] stated the matter well in his memorandum opinion: “In our opinion an allegation based on an assumption or supposition not supported by the facts is insufficient to support [an inference of] criminal activity in a premises, in spite of the fact that there are plenty of allegations to relate criminal activity of the individual who is alleged to have lived in the premises.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘[T]he nexus between the evidence to be seized and the place to be searched was provided by Frye’s admission that he was conducting at least part of his unlawful operations from his home.’ Id., [242 Pa. Super.] at 149, 363 A.2d at 1204 .” Way at 348 , 492 A.2d at 1154 .”
2 later decisions 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.