428 Pa. Super. 69 - Commonwealth v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
38
cited by 38 later decisions
1
states following
November 2005
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Watson · Johnson v. COM., PA. BD. OF PROB. & PAR. · Commonwealth v. Swanger
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a police officer is engaged in a systematic program of checking motor vehicles or drivers or has articulable and reasonable grounds to suspect a violation of this title, he may stop a vehicle____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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