249 Pa. Super. 117 - Commonwealth v. Trefry’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 1993 · most notably 280 Pa. Super. 20 - Commonwealth v. Benson (1980), 353 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Speights (1986)
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 Schmerber v. State of California · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Ray · 229 Pa. Super. 363 - Commonwealth v. Quarles
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is significant, however, that the court in [Commonwealth v.] Quarles [ 229 Pa. Super. 363 , 324 A.2d 452 (1974)] recognized the continued viability of the holding in Commonwealth v. Murray, . . . commenting that ‘the commonwealth is not totally disabled from procuring evidence of intoxication by reliance on the traditional exceptions to the warrant requirements of the Fourth Amendment. See e.g., Commonwealth v. Murray . . .’ Authority thus persists under Murray for a lawful, non-consentual blood test, incident to a legal arrest and under emergency circumstances, despite the statutory right of refusal. ...” 249 Pa. Super, at 128, 375 A.2d at 792 (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At trial» the-results of a test» as indicative of intoxication at a relevant point in time» may be attacked or contradicted by any competent evidence. The weight to be accorded test results thus properly rests with the finder of fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bennett
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.