Commonwealth v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When the Commonwealth appeals a suppression order, we consider only the evidence from [Appellee’s] witnesses together with the portion, of the Commonwealth’s evidence which is uncontrovert-ed. Our standard of review is limited to determining whether the suppression court’s factual findings are supported by the record, but we exercise de novo-re-view over the suppression court’s conclusions of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Harris