Commonwealth v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 2008 Pa. Super. 233 - Commonwealth v. Bostick (2008), 2006 Pa. Super. 218 - Commonwealth v. Jackson (2006)
36 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 · Chimel v. California · United States v. Cortez · Adams v. Williams · New York v. Belton
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s [ ] incident to the arrest the officers could, as a precautionary matter and without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, look in closets and other spaces immediately adjoining the place of arrest from which an attack could be immediately launched. Beyond that, however, we hold that there must be articulable facts which, taken together with the rational inferences from those facts, would warrant a reasonably prudent officer in believ ing that the area to be swept harbors an individual posing a danger to those on the arrest scene.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A police officer may conduct a quick frisk for weapons if he or she reasonably fears that the person with whom he or she is dealing may be armed and dangerous. The officer need not be absolutely certain that the individual is armed; the issue is whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or the safety of others was in danger. The existence of reasonable suspicion to frisk an individual must be judged in light of the totality of the circumstances confronting the police officer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here are specific and articulable facts, which “when taken together with the rational inferences from those facts,” would give the police reasonable concerns for their safety. Here, after extensive surveillance and probable cause of unlawful activity, the police entered a building to search for narcotics. Once inside the convenience store, the police apprehended [a person] and located a large quantity of a controlled substance but could not confirm the whereabouts of two individuals who had just entered. As the only accessible area adjoining the first floor, the basement provided a logical hiding place for [the two individuals]. The police entered the basement under a reasonable belief that third parties were present and could pose a threat to them, therefore exigent circumstances legally justified the protective sweep of the basement.”
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.