Commonwealth v. Treftz’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably 265 Pa. Super. 194 - Commonwealth v. Stanley (1979), Commonwealth v. Brion (1994)
80 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 Katz v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Jones v. United States · Alderman v. United States · United States v. Jeffers
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) his presence on the premises at the time of the search and seizure; (2) a possessory interest in the evidence improperly seized; (3) that the offense charged include as an essential element of the prosecution's case, the element of possession at the time of the contested search and seizure; or, (4) a proprietory [ sic ] or possessory interest in the searched premises. Commonwealth v. Treftz, supra, 465 Pa. at 621-22 , 351 A.2d at 268 (footnotes omitted).”
4 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.