361 Pa. Super. 526 - Commonwealth v. Vinson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 415 Pa. Super. 252 - Commonwealth v. Lopez (1992), 1999 Pa. Super. 2 - Commonwealth v. Rodda (1999)
45 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 Strickland v. Washington · Adams v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Riggins · Commonwealth v. Buehl · Commonwealth v. Evans
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur function as an appellate court reviewing a denial of a motion to suppress is to determine: [WJhether the record supports the suppression court’s factual findings and the legitimacy of the inferences and legal conclusions drawn from those findings. In making this determination, we consider only the evidence of the prosecution’s witnesses and so much of the evidence for the defense as, fairly read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontradicted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“limited investigation.” This concept is referred to as an”
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.