Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zhahir (2000), Commonwealth v. Torres (2001)
139 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 Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Alabama v. White · Batson v. Kentucky · Commonwealth v. Edmunds
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... there is no gun exception to the Terry requirement for reasonable suspicion of criminal activity....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re DM · Commonwealth v. Martin“In an appeal from the denial of a motion to suppress our role is to determine whether the record supports the suppression court’s factual findings and the legitimacy of the inferences and legal conclusions drawn from those findings. In making this determination, we may consider only the evidence of the prosecution’s witnesses and so much of the defense as, fairly read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontra-dicted. When the factual findings of the suppression court are supported by the evidence, we may reverse only if there is an error in the legal conclusions drawn from those factual findings.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is simply fantastic to urge that [a frisk] performed in public while the citizen is helpless, perhaps facing a wall with his hands raised, is a petty indignity. It is a serious intrusion on the sanctity of the person which may inflict great indignity and arouse strong resentment, and it is not to be undertaken lightly. Commonwealth v. Jackson, 548 Pa. 484 , 698 A.2d 571, 573 (1997) (quoting Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 16 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.