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← 418 Pa. Super. 48 - Commonwealth v. Townsend

418 Pa. Super. 48 - Commonwealth v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 1999
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 417 Pa. Super. 485 - Commonwealth v. Thill · 373 Pa. Super. 497 - Commonwealth v. Shiffler

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

  1. “(c) Test results admissible in evidence.-ln any summary proceeding or criminal proceeding in which the defendant is charged with violation of section 3731 ..., the amount of alcohol ... in the defendant’s blood, as shown by chemical testing of the person’s breath, ... which tests were conducted by qualified' persons using approved equipment, shall be admissible in evidence. (1) Chemical tests of breath shall be performed on devices approved by the Department of Health using 'procedures prescribed jointly by regulations of the departments of Health and Transportation. Devices shall have been calibrated and tested for accuracy ... in a manner specified by regulations of the departments....”
    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.