454 Pa. Super. 456 - Commonwealth v. Lechner’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Perry (2002), 1999 Pa. Super. 227 - Commonwealth v. Stewart (1999)
26 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 Terry v. Ohio · Alabama v. White · Pennsylvania v. Labron · Chapman v. Burton Berger & Associates · Commonwealth v. Dugger
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e consider only the evidence of the defendant’s witnesses and so much of the Commonwealth evidence that, read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontradicted.” Commonwealth v. Evans, [ 443 Pa.Super. 351 ,] 661 A.2d 881, 883 (Pa.Super. 1995) [, aff'd. 546 Pa. 417 , 685 A.2d 535 (1996) ]. We are bound by only those factual findings made by the suppression court which are supported by the record, and thereafter must determine whether the legal conclusions and inferences drawn from those facts are legitimate. Commonwealth v. Walker, 540 Pa. 80, 94 , 656 A.2d 90, 98 . As a result, we may reverse only if the legal conclusions drawn from the factual findings are erroneous. Commonwealth v. Rosario, [ 438 Pa.Super. 241 ,] 652 A.2d 354, 365 (Pa.Super. 1994).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he evidence required to establish probable cause for a warrantless search must be more than a mere suspicion or a good faith belief on the part of the police officer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“knowledge ... sufficient to warrant a person of reasonable caution in the belief that an offense”
2 later decisions 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.