343 Pa. Super. 118 - Commonwealth v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Agee (1990), 355 Pa. Super. 514 - Commonwealth v. Reddix (1986)
52 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Paquette · Commonwealth v. Redline
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘An arresting officer, in executing a valid arrest, may rely upon radio broadcasts emanating from police facilities provided, however, that the arresting officer has been either (1) ordered or directed to perform the arrest by an officer in possession of facts justifying the arrest; (2) received information justifying arrest; or (3) heard information which, coupled with facts he personally observed, provided probable cause to arrest. Commonwealth v. Gambit, 274 Pa.Super. 571, 577-578 , 418 A.2d 554, 557 (1980), affd., 501 Pa. 453 , 462 A.2d 211 (1983). Accord Commonwealth v. Prengle, 293 Pa.Super. 64, 67 , 437 A.2d 992, 994 (1981).’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * where the evidence of other criminal activity forms part of the history of the event or serves to enhance the natural development of the facts. * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morgan · Brown v. State“A finding that appellant is entitled to a new trial cannot be made unless it can be concluded that the alternatives not chosen offered a potential for success substantially greater than the tactics actually utilized resulting in prejudice to the defendant. Commonwealth v. Evans, 343 Pa.Super. 118, 132 , 494 A.2d 383 (1985).”
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.