Commonwealth v. Robey’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1991
11 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 Parrott v. Commonwealth · Thomason v. Commonwealth · Hancock v. Commonwealth · Ervin v. State · Reynolds v. Commonwealth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * While we are not aware of any precedent for holding that evidence obtained as a result of an officer's merely stopping a person is inadmissible, we feel that due respect for the basic right of liberty (Ky. Const. Sec. 1) should afford some protection against the unjustified or unreasonable stopping of a person by a police officer. Accordingly, it is our view that if an officer stops a motorist without bona fide cause any evidence obtained as a result of the stopping should be considered to have been illegally obtained and therefore inadmissible."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * the rule appears to be well established generally that if officers observe a motorist driving in an erratic manner such as to suggest the possibility that he is drunk they may stop him, and if they discover from mere observation of him after he has stopped that he is drunk the evidence so obtained is admissible in a prosecution for drunken driving * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In some jurisdictions, probable cause will justify an officer in stopping a vehicle to investigate the driver's condition; but if he goes further and makes the arrest, probable cause is no longer enough, and he must show that the offense for which the arrest was made was actually committed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colling v. Hjelle
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.