Commonwealth v. Garvin’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
268 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 268 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Farquharson (1976), Commonwealth v. O'SEARO (1976)
268 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Wong Sun v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States
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 268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o law abiding society could tolerate a presumption that but for the illegal arrest the suspect would never have been required to face his accus[e]rs,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“simply because it would not have come to light but for the illegal actions of the police. Rather, the more apt question in such a case is”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We believe that no fixed rule with respect to disclosure is justifiable. The problem is one that calls for balancing the public interest in protecting the flow of information against the individual’s right to prepare his defense. Whether a proper balance renders nondisclosure erroneous must depend on the particular circumstances of each case, taking into consideration the crime charge, the possible defenses, the possible significance of the informan[t’s] testimony, and other relevant factors.””
3 later decisions 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.