340 Pa. Super. 136 - Commonwealth v. Capers’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 362 Pa. Super. 176 - Commonwealth v. Westcott (1987), 359 Pa. Super. 433 - Commonwealth v. Jackson (1986)
37 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 Terry v. Ohio · 329 Pa. Super. 490 - Commonwealth v. Carter · 321 Pa. Super. 323 - Commonwealth v. O'Neal · 326 Pa. Super. 331 - Commonwealth v. Ferrier · 291 Pa. Super. 271 - Commonwealth v. Webster
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If police have reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot, they may make a temporary, investigatory stop even though they lack probable cause to make an arrest. Commonwealth v. O’Neal, 321 Pa.Super. 323, 325 , 468 A.2d 500, 502 (1983). If the police reasonably believe their safety is in jeopardy, a limited search for weapons is justified. Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). If incriminating evidence establishing probable cause for arrest is discovered after the temporary stop, a lawful arrest may then be made. Commonwealth v. Webster, 291 Pa.Super. 271, 276-277 , 435 A.2d 1217, 1219-1220 (1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person who has indecent contact with another not his spouse, or causes such other to have indecent contact with him is guilty of indecent assault, a misdemeanor of the second degree, if: (1) He does so without the consent of the other person;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of the person for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire, in either person.”
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.