395 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Danforth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kohl (1992), 122 Wash. 2d 73 - State v. Olivas (1993)
56 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Bell v. Wolfish · Payton v. New York · Schmerber v. State of California · Delaware v. Prouse
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 1547. Chemical testing to determine amount of alcohol or controlled substance (a) General rule. — Any person who drives, operates or is in actual physical control of the movement of a motor vehicle in this Commonwealth shall be deemed to have given consent to one or more chemical tests of breath, blood or urine for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content of blood or the presence of a controlled substance if a police officer has reasonable grounds to believe the person to have been driving, operating or in actual physical control of the movement of a motor vehicle: (2) which was involved in an accident in which the operator or passenger of any vehicle involved or a pedestrian required treatment at a medical facility or was killed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Kohl“In Commonwealth v. Walsh, supra, this Court noted that any understanding of investigative procedures would not weigh in favor of a finding of an intelligent and knowing consent in the absence of some awareness that the blood test being consented to was part of a criminal investigation. Commonwealth v. Walsh, supra, 314 Pa.Super. at 75-76, 460 A.2d at 772. The Court concluded that if the defendant “can establish that he had no notice of the criminal investigative purpose of the blood test, his consent would be invalid.” Id. at 77, 460 A.2d at 773.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The question of whether an arrested individual has voluntarily consented to a search `is one of fact which must be determined in each case from the totality of the circumstances.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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