Commonwealth v. Bertram’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 2010
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones v. United States · Harris v. New York · Brown v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“In the event of the absence from a county of all District Judges and all Circuit Judges and all trial commissioners, the circuit [court] clerk in each county may issue criminal warrants prepared by the Commonwealth’s attorney or county attorney, who shall certify that there is no District Judge, Circuit Judge, or trial commissioner within the county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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