Commonwealth v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Chambers (1991), 363 Pa. Super. 247 - Bolus v. United Penn Bank (1987)
3 federal appellate · 148 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Wade · Aguilar v. Texas · Gilbert v. California · Blitz v. Boog
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the information is that of an attending nurse or physician having personal observations and an interest in learning and describing accurately, there seems to be every reason for admitting testimony based in part on this.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘[T]he law is quite clear that the inclusion of illegally obtained evidence does not vitiate a search warrant which is otherwise validly issued upon probable cause reflected in the affidavit and based on proper sources. Clay v. United States, 246 F.2d 298 (5th Cir. 1957), cert. denied, 355 U.S. 863 , 78 S.Ct. 96 , 2 L.Ed. 269 ; Chin Kay v. United States, 311 F.2d 317 (9th Cir. 1963)’: United States v. Sterling, 369 F.2d 799, 802 (3d Cir. 1966). Accord, James v. United States, 135 U.S.App.D.C. 314 , 418 F.2d 1150 (1969).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.