264 Pa. Super. 390 - Commonwealth v. Albert’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 281 Pa. Super. 541 - Commonwealth v. Luddy (1980), 388 Pa. Super. 82 - Commonwealth v. Bruner (1989)
26 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 Commonwealth v. Riggins · Perini v. Downey · Commonwealth v. Martin · Greco v. Orange Memorial Hospital Corp. Et Al. · 223 Pa. Super. 60 - Commonwealth v. Lockhart
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Did the informant give prior reliable information? 2. Was the informant’s story corroborated by any other source? 3. Were the informant’s statements a declaration against interest? 4. Does the defendant’s reputation support the informant’s tip?”
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.