409 Pa. Super. 120 - Commonwealth v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 1995
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Story · Commonwealth v. Lovette · Commonwealth v. Claypool · Commonwealth v. Banks · Commonwealth v. DiFrancesco
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he introduction of out-of-court statements for the purpose of showing that based on information contained in the statements, the police followed a certain course of conduct that led to the defendant's arrest [is proper].”
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.