348 Pa. Super. 306 - Commonwealth v. Tarbert’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
8
states following
May 1992
most recently cited
25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Delaware v. Prouse · Michigan v. Long · Texas v. Brown
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ejxcept in those situations in which there is at least articulable and reasonable suspicion that a motorist is unlicensed or that an automobile is not registered, or that either the vehicle or an occupant is otherwise subject to seizure for violation of law, stopping an automobile and detaining the driver in order to check his driver’s license and the registration of the automobile are unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[P]olice roadblocks, which, without probable cause or a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or is being committed, stop all vehicles travelling on a public highway for the purposes of checking licenses, registrations, inspection violations, and for drivers operating vehicles under the influence of alcohol are so violative of our citizen's rights that they must be declared unconstitutional." [16]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . we cannot sanction `random seizures' based on `luck and hunch' alone . . . which inconvenience citizens without any justification of substance.' State v. Kirk, 202 N.J. Super. 28, 58 , 493 A.2d 1271, 1288 (1985) (citations omitted). In short, systematic and random roadblocks are nothing more than fishing expeditions which `constitute police seizures and detention in the absence of the faintest scintilla of criminal wrongdoing.' Rodgers, [ The Drunk Driving Roadblock: Random Seizures or Minimal Intrusion?, 21 CRIM.L.BULL. 197, 214 (1985)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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