293 Pa. Super. 341 - Commonwealth v. Hankins’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Assuming Castellana was ‘in custody’ under inherently coercive conditions when [the agent] asked his questions, Miranda was not infringed, for [the agent] was not interrogating Castellana in an attempt to elicit evidence of a crime. The safety of the operation was [the agent’s] primary concern, he testified, and the very form of his first inquiry— weapons within reach — shows it was limited to his proper concern.... We find ourselves unable to condemn, after the fact and on grounds of some delicacy, such mild prophylactic measures reasonably calculated to ensure the safety of the officers, the subject, and others on the scene as well. To be sure, the court below concluded that the agents did not feel physically threatened by Castellana, but in our view the mild measures adopted were justified by a reasonable prudence under the circumstances and did not require an actual fear of imminent harm to validate them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cronk v. State