369 Pa. Super. 398 - Commonwealth v. Heidelberg’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Baker v. Monroe Township (1995), 381 Pa. Super. 626 - Commonwealth v. Graciani (1989)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Ybarra v. Illinois · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · State v. De Simone · Commonwealth v. Reece · Commonwealth v. Platou
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“controlled substances from the house and consequently must have observed drug sales to third parties on the premises. Most important, however, is the fact that within twenty-four hours of issuance of the warrant, a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“observed James Heidelberg selling cocaine `to other persons at [the] house' [and] observed `a large quantity of cocaine' for sale at the residence in James Heidelberg's possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]n principle, the sufficiency of a warrant to search persons identified only by their presence at a specified place should depend upon the facts.”
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.