Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The initial illegality does not give the arrestee a free pass to commit new offenses without responsibility. Neither does that initial illegality “poison the tree,” preventing lawful police conduct thereafter — the new crimes are new trees, planted by [the defendant], and the fruit that grows from them is not automatically tainted by the initial lack of probable cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2010 Pa. Super. 110 - Commonwealth v. Taggart

2. “A person commits a misdemeanor of the second degree if, with the intent of preventing a public servant from effecting a lawful arrest or discharging any other duty, the person creates a substantial risk of bodily injury to the public servant or anyone else, or employs means justifying or requiring substantial force to overcome thé resistance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ickes v. Grassmeyer