Commonwealth v. Keasley’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
May 1987
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Davenport · Commonwealth v. Jenkins · 268 Pa. Super. 511 - Commonwealth v. Terebieniec · Commonwealth v. Keasley
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Interestingly, both the suppression court and appellee implicitly concede that if the police had caused appellee to remain in custody, even beyond the six hour limit, while they were attempting to secure a judicial officer the case would probably have fallen within the exigent circumstances dispensation. We agree with this conclusion assuming the Commonwealth’s ability to establish its diligent effort in seeking a timely arraignment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ejfforts by police to secure the presence of the arraignment judge scheduled to be on duty as well as another arraignment judge were unsuccessful, and appellee was not arraigned until 6:25 a.m. that morning, after the judge scheduled to be on duty at 8:00 a.m. came on duty early at police request.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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