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← 350 Pa. Super. 595 - Commonwealth v. Lewis

350 Pa. Super. 595 - Commonwealth v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1987
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Griffin v. California · McNabb v. United States · Mallory v. United States · United States v. Janis · Blackburn v. Alabama

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is unrelated to the illegal detention. Although he was detained for more than six hours before his arraignment, it is undisputed that appellant uttered an inculpatory remark without questioning or provocation soon after his arrest. We therefore find that the illegality of the detention was unrelated to the”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “by an accused shall be admissible at trial despite a delay of more than six hours between the time of arrest and arraignment where the”
    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.