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← 445 PA 454 - Commonwealth v. Rowe

Commonwealth v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
October 1994
most recently cited

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.

  1. “`become so attenuated as to dissipate the taint.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “(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 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.