Commonwealth v. Ruey’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Arthur (2013), 2009 Pa. Super. 204 - Commonwealth v. Basinger (2009)
50 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 Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Commonwealth v. Edmunds · Commonwealth v. Gray
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions from unreasonable searches and seizures, and no warrant to search any place or to seize any person or things shall issue without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation subscribed to by the affiant.1 ] The protection provided by Article I, Section 8 extends to areas where an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy. [[Image here]] ... [Ejvidence discovered as a result of a search that violates the fundamental constitutional guarantees of Article I, Section 8 will be suppressed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here a motion to suppress has been filed, the burden is on the Commonwealth to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the challenged evidence is admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“common-sense distinction between the absence of probable cause and the mere lack of a full and complete articulation of the same”
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.