391 Pa. Super. 113 - Commonwealth v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 397 Pa. Super. 364 - Commonwealth v. Ariondo (1990), 411 Pa. Super. 63 - Commonwealth v. Agnew (1991)
37 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 Katz v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Johnson v. United States · Sedillo v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The warrant requirement, however, is excused where exigent circumstances exist. [ Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 454-455 , 91 S.Ct. 2022, 2032 , 29 L.Ed.2d 564, 576 (1971).] Exceptions arise where the need for prompt police action is imperative, either because evidence sought to be preserved is likely to be destroyed or secreted from investigation, or because the officer must protect himself from danger to his person by checking for concealed weapons. Commonwealth v. Holzer, 480 Pa. 93, 102 , 389 A.2d 101, 106 (1978) (footnote omitted). See also: Commonwealth v. Chandler, 505 Pa. 113 , 477 A.2d 851 (1984); Commonwealth v. Silo, 480 Pa. 15 , 389 A.2d 62 (1978), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 1132 , 99 S.Ct. 1053 , 59 L.Ed.2d 94 (1979); Commonwealth v. Hinkson, 315 Pa.Super. 23 , 461 A.2d 616 (1983). Other exceptions to the warrant requirement arise in situations where a warrantless search or seizure by police "does not amount to a significant invasion of a defendant's reasonable expectations of privacy." Commonwealth v. Holzer, supra . Such exceptions include consensual searches, seizure of abandoned property and plain view searches. See: Commonwealth v. Holzer, supra, 480 Pa. at 102 n. 6, 389 A.2d at 106 n. 6; Commonwealth v. Albrecht, 510 Pa. 603, 613 , 511 A.2d 764, 769 (1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 951 , 107 S.Ct. 1617 , 94 L.Ed.2d 801 (1987) (consent); Commonwealth v. Pine, 370 Pa.Super. 410, 419 , 536 A.2d 811, 816 (1988) (plain view); Commonwealth v. Vecchione, 327 P”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`It is not improper for a police officer to call at a particular house and seek admission for the purpose of investigating a complaint or conducting other official business. If admission is voluntarily granted by a person who is in a position to give such effective consent, then the policeman may enter and make observations while therein consistent with the scope of the permission he was given. But the mere fact that the door of the house is opened in response to the officer's knock or ring does not mean that the officer is entitled to walk past the person so responding into the interior of the residence. Nor may the officer enter the home when there is no response at all.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When an arguable claim of ineffective assistance of counsel has been made, and there has been no evidentiary hearing in the [trial court] to permit the defendant to develop evidence on the record to support the claim, and to provide the Commonwealth an opportunity to rebut the claim, this Court will remand for such a hearing. See Commonwealth v. Spotts, 341 Pa.Super. 31, 33 , 491 A.2d 132, 134 (1985).”
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.