Commonwealth v. Crosby’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 state decisions

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When we review the ruling of a suppression court we must determine whether the factual findings are supported by the record. When it is a defendant who has appealed, we must consider only the evidence of the prosecution and so much of the evidence for the defense as, fairly read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontradicted. Assuming that there is support in the record, we are bound by the facts as are found [sic] and we may reverse the suppression court only if the legal conclusions drawn from those facts are in error.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. D'Amato · 398 Pa. Super. 494 - Commonwealth v. Rochon

2. “[T]he mental age and condition of appellant are serious considerations, but a low IQ and limited education are not in themselves sufficient to render the confession involuntary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 400 Pa. Super. 316 - Commonwealth v. Brown