Berman v. Philadelphia’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 280 Pa. Super. 65 - Rupel v. Bluestein (1980), Guy C. Long, Inc. v. Dependable Insurance Co. (In Re Guy C. Long, Inc.) (1987)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Brinegar v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Burdeau v. McDowell · Miller v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]urely as Mr. Justice Brandeis recognized, basic respect for government is eroded when some of its officers arbitrarily ignore established procedures of law and rely upon the force of their power . . . the interest to .be protected here, which can never be compensated for in damages, extends beyond the instant appellants to the community at large.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It cannot be gainsaid that appellants had a right to insist that the police not seize their property without due process of law. . . . [B]asic respect for government is eroded when some of its officers arbitrarily ignore estab lished procedures of law and rely upon the force of their power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We conclude that the failure of the Court below to insist that the police resort to the available legal machinery rather than forcibly evicting appellants, thereby insuring the dignity of the legal process, did amount to an abuse of discretion.” 425 Pa. at 16 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lenair v. Campbell
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.