Commonwealth v. Waltson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Torres (2001), Commonwealth v. Chase (2008)
4 district · 44 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 Commonwealth v. Edmunds · Commonwealth v. Gray · Commonwealth v. Cortez · Commonwealth v. Reese · Commonwealth v. Jackson
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Commonwealth v. Waltson, 555 Pa. 223 , 724 A.2d 289 , 292 (1998). In order to protect these twin aims, a warrant must describe the place to be searched and the items to be seized with specificity, and the warrant must be supported by probable cause. The place to be searched must be described”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]here a search warrant adequately describes the place to be searched and the items to be seized the scope of the search "extends to the entire area in which the object of the search may be found and properly includes the opening and inspection of containers and other receptacles where the object may be secreted."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"whether the search of an entire residence is barred as overbroad pursuant to Article 1, Section 8 where the affidavit of probable cause for the warrant references only a particular room within the residence. "”
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.