Commonwealth v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 221 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Consumer Party of Pennsylvania v. Com. (1986), Commonwealth v. Travaglia (1995)
6 federal appellate · 221 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Chimel v. California · Payton v. New York · Rakas v. Illinois · Ker v. State of California · Rawlings v. Kentucky
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Drug busts are so inherently exigent as to product and dangerous as to the authorities that the police, once armed with a proper warrant, should be allowed to knock, announce and enter almost immediately. The reasonableness requirement should play in favor of the authorities because any delay enables drug pushers to dispose of evidence by flushing or similar means. The term "exigency" takes on a whole new meaning in reference to drug cases. Finally, the "Fourth Amendment cannot be interpreted to imperil law enforcement officers." Stanley, [ supra ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Fourth Amendment claims involve the accused’s ‘legitimate expectation of privacy’ in the areas searched. See Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128 , 99 S.Ct. 421 , 58 L.Ed.2d 387 (1978); Commonwealth v. Wagner, 486 Pa. 548 , 406 A.2d 1026 (1979). If an arrest warrant and ‘reason to believe’ that a suspect can be found on the premises are sufficient for police to invade a suspect’s own home, then these facts are sufficient to invade a third party’s premises, where a suspect’s expectation of privacy is necessarily less.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““On October 1, 1975, while incarcerated following a murder conviction for the shooting death of one Timothy Shinn, appellant escaped from the Philadelphia General Hospital Detention Unit. When police discovered appellant was gone, they broadcast an hourly ‘wanted’ message over the police radio, informed the State Crime Information Center, and widely disseminated appellant’s ‘mug shot’.. An arrest warrant was issued the next day. While appellant was at large, Carmen Sperduto observed appellant with Jacqueline Keim. Ms. Keim told Mr. Sperduto that appellant was a fugitive and was staying at her apartment on West Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia. (Appellant was heard to say that ‘he needed a place to hole up ... until things got cooled off.’) Mr. Sperduto also observed appellant drop and retrieve a small caliber revolver. On October 3, after seeing appellant’s picture in the paper, Mr. Sperduto called the police and stated that he ‘might know’ appellant’s whereabouts. About an hour later, Mr. Sperduto conducted the police to Ms. Keim’s apartment. The police called for reinforcements, but no search warrant was obtained. When reinforcements arrived, an officer knocked and announced ‘Police’. Thirty to sixty seconds elapsed with no response. The police then forced open the door and proceeded through the living room and dining room. In a small back bedroom, the police observed what they first thought to be a bundle of clothing beneath a small portable crib. Upon closer examinatio”
1 later decision 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.