Commonwealth v. Daniels’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably Commonwealth v. Duncan (1987), Commonwealth v. Matos (1996)
47 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 Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Exton Quarries, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Adjustment · Commonwealth v. Bishop · Commonwealth v. Fogan · Betrand Appeal
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An arrest may be accomplished by ‘any act that indicates an intention to take [a person] into custody and subjects him to the actual control and will of the person making the arrest.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o us, this indicates that appellant was subject to the will of the officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fitzgerald v. State
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.