242 Pa. Super. 255 - Commonwealth v. Slater’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1997
12 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 · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, there is always a first time. The police need not discourage a citizen who comes forward with information for the first time. But merely to accommodate the informant, the police are not exempted from testing the reliability of the information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““. . . [T]he course from an informant’s false statement to his conviction is a long and tortuous one. Statistically, the chances of such a prosecution are almost nonexistent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to believe both that the informer is a truthful person generally and that he has based his particular conclusions in the matter at hand on reliable data. . . .”
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.