274 Pa. Super. 571 - Commonwealth v. Gambit’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Shareef (1996), 355 Pa. Super. 514 - Commonwealth v. Reddix (1986)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Terry v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Johnson v. United States · City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · Commonwealth v. Kichline
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nformation scattered among various officers in a police department cannot substitute for possession of the necessary facts by a single officer related to the arrest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In no instance has an arrest been justified where the information providing probable cause was known only to officers unconnected with the arrest. What is missing here is some communication or connection between [the arresting officer] and the officers who heard the ... broadcast.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re MEB
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.