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← 858 A2D 1255 - Com. v. Washington

Com. v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Grant · 2001 Pa. Super. 148 - Commonwealth v. Belenky

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

  1. “where there was no ambiguity about the location where the criminal activity occurred, as well as no question that probable cause for the search existed at the location that was searched”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “there was no ambiguity about the location of the residence to be searched and that, indeed, criminal activity was afoot at that location[.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[t]he investigation of discarded trash from a residence.”
    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.