396 Pa. Super. 6 - Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 422 Pa. Super. 153 - Commonwealth v. Quiles (1993), 444 Pa. Super. 170 - Commonwealth v. Henderson (1995)
46 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 Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Hicks · Commonwealth v. Hamlin · 293 Pa. Super. 64 - Commonwealth v. Prengle
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the Commonwealth is appealing the adverse decision of a suppression court, a reviewing court must consider only the evidence of the defendant’s witnesses and so much of the evidence for the prosecution as read in the context of the record as a whole remains uncontradicted. Commonwealth v. Robinson, 518 Pa. 156, 159-160 , 541 A.2d 1387, 1389 (1988), citing, Commonwealth v. Hamlin, 503 Pa. 210, 215-216 , 469 A.2d 137, 139 (1983). If the evidence supports the court’s factual findings, we are bound by such findings and may only reverse if the legal conclusions drawn therefrom are in error. Commonwealth v. Jackson, 359 Pa.Super. 433 , 519 A.2d 427 (1986).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““Our examination of the conduct of the police must follow two separate inquiries: (1) the legality of the initial stop; and (2) the propriety of the officers’ subsequent actions. Commonwealth v. Jackson, 359 Pa. Super. 433 , 519 A.2d 427 (1986). To justify the initial stop, a police officer must rely on specific and articulable facts, which if taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion. Commonwealth v. Pine, 370 Pa. Super. 410 , 536 A.2d 811 (1988), Jackson, supra.... “The search or frisk incident to an investigatory stop must meet a higher threshold of justification. A police officer may legitimately search an individual’s clothing in an attempt to discover the presence of weapons which might be used to endanger the officer or others if the officer observes unusual and suspicious conduct on the part of the individual seized which leads him to conclude that criminal activity is afoot and that the person with whom he is dealing may be armed and dangerous. Commonwealth v. Hicks, 434 Pa. 153 , 253 A.2d 276 (1969).” Id. at 10, 577 A.2d at 1389 .”
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.