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310 Pa. Super. 516 - Commonwealth v. Van Jordan’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
August 1992
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Chimel v. California · United States v. Matlock · United States v. Chadwick · Cady v. Dombrowski

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

  1. “____when the prosecution seeks to justify a warrantless search by proof of voluntary consent, it is not limited to proof that consent was given by the defendant, but may show that permission to search was obtained from a third party who possessed common authority over or other sufficient relationship to the premises or effects sought to be inspected. United States v. Matlock, 415 U.S. 164, 171 , 94 S.Ct. 988, 993 , 39 L.Ed.2d 242, 249, 250 (1974).”
    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.