Commonwealth v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Commonwealth v. Bishop · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ex Rel. George W. Craig v. James F. Maroney, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`become so attenuated as to dissipate the taint.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) the proximity of an initial illegal custodial act to the procurement of the confession; and "(b) the intervention of other circumstances subsequent to an illegal arrest which provide a cause so unrelated to that initial illegality that the acquired evidence may not reasonably be said to have been directly derived from, and thereby tainted by, that illegal arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Betrand Appeal
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.