314 Pa. Super. 210 - Commonwealth v. Barba’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably 341 Pa. Super. 350 - In Re Search Warrant B-21778 Gartley (1985), 2000 Pa. Super. 293 - Commonwealth v. Aguado (2000)
25 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 Aguilar v. Texas · United States v. Ventresca · Boyd v. United States · Marron v. United States · Andresen v. Maryland
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The waiver provision of Rule 1925(b) is clearly discretionary. The statement provided for therein is intended to aid the trial court in the preparation of an opinion where the basis of the appeal is unclear after post-verdict motions have been disposed of. The waiver provision of the Rule is properly invoked only where failure to file a statement of issues raised on appeal defeats effective appellate review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Paragraph [ ] ... (c) [is] intended to proscribe general or exploratory searches by requiring that searches be directed only toward the specific ... places set forth in the warrant. Such warrants should, however, be read in a common sense fashion and should not be invalidated by hypertechnical interpretations....”
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.