254 Pa. Super. 417 - Commonwealth v. Burgwin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2011
13 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 Katz v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Robinson · South Dakota v. Opperman · United States v. Chadwick
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The circumstances revealed ... that there was a search of a locked trunk, that [Appellant] ... [was] in custody and [was] not asked about disposition of the automobile, nor [was he] asked whether an inventory was necessary, that the police had indicia sufficient for them to believe that incriminating evidence may well be discovered by a search of [Appellant’s] car, and that there was no valuable personal property in plain view. Taking all of these circumstances into consideration ... the search of [Appellant’s] automobile was an investigatory search and not a search incident to the police’s caretaking function.”
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.