Commonwealth v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1989
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Commonwealth v. Dugger · 311 Pa. Super. 264 - Commonwealth v. Lapia · Commonwealth v. Abrams · Commonwealth v. Ferguson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Commonwealth v. Dugger, 506 Pa. 537 , 486 A.2d 382 (1985), our Supreme Court held that the Commonwealth’s appeal from a suppression order was proper as long as the Commonwealth certified in good faith that the order either ‘terminates’ or ‘substantially handicaps’ the prosecution. The good faith certification is a precaution to meritless appeals designed solely for delay. It is no longer necessary for this Court to make an independant determination from the record whether the suppression order ‘terminates’ or ‘substantially handicaps’ the prosecution.”
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.