Commonwealth v. Pomponi’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Commonwealth v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Byrd · Commonwealth v. Novak
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence suppressed may well mark the difference between success and failure in the prosecution; to deny the Commonwealth its only opportunity of securing an appellate review to determine whether the evidence was properly suppressed is highly unfair to the Commonwealth and interests of society which it represents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in an absolute termination of the prosecution . . . [or] in a prosecution wherein the Commonwealth is substantially handicapped because it cannot present all its available evidence.”
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.