348 Pa. Super. 230 - Commonwealth v. Fenstermaker’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. · Waller v. Georgia · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County
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.
““[p]ublic access to the document may help provide a check upon possible violations of the fundamental requirement that a warrant of arrest is not issued upon anything less than probable cause. Also, respect for the judicial process may not fully exist if the paper upon which many criminal proceedings commence is unconditionally barred from public scrutiny.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greenwood v. Wolchik
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.