400 Pa. Super. 397 - Commonwealth v. Flaherty’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “absent from [the informant's] declaration is any reference to a time frame from which to anticipate drugs being delivered from [Flaherty's] vehicle. The particular frequency of such deliveries in the past, as well as the probability that such might continue at any particular time in the future remains wholly a mystery. Were such deliveries made by [Flaherty] hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or at some other interval of time? "Any selection of time on our part would be purely conjectural — so too must have been the magistrate's determination."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 430 Pa. Super. 585 - Commonwealth v. Zelasny

2. “The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the “veracity” and “basis of knowledge” of persons supplying hearsay information, that there is a fair probability that contraband of evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. Gray, 509 Pa. at 484 , 503 A.2d at 925 (emphasis added) (quoting Gates, 462 U.S. at 238-39 , 103 S.Ct. at 2332 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 407 Pa. Super. 415 - Commonwealth v. Davis

3. “Any selection of time on our part would be purely conjectural — so too must have been the magistrate's determination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 430 Pa. Super. 585 - Commonwealth v. Zelasny