299 Pa. Super. 447 - Commonwealth v. Mazzochetti’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably 331 Pa. Super. 285 - Commonwealth v. Davis (1984), 330 Pa. Super. 420 - Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1984)
36 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 279 Pa. Super. 101 - Gee v. Eberle · United States v. Larry C. Smith, Etc., United States of America v. Marshall Carter, Etc. · 225 Pa. Super. 381 - Commonwealth v. Ambers · 243 Pa. Super. 319 - Commonwealth v. Herron · Commonwealth v. Kaschik
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 36 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.