397 Pa. Super. 439 - Commonwealth v. Welshans’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2017
19 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 McKnight v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Davis · Commonwealth v. Gonzalez · 229 Pa. Super. 363 - Commonwealth v. Quarles · 353 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Speights
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““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: “(1) while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance or both ...” 75 Pa.C.S. § 1547(a).”
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.