97 Pa. Commw. 74 - Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 254 Pa. Super. 233 - Commonwealth v. Funk · Commonwealth, Department of Transportation v. Bartle · 257 Pa. Super. 326 - Commonwealth v. Lee · 96 Pa. Commw. 262 - McFarren v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The quoted! terms of the section [75 Pa.C.S. § 1547(a)] definitively provide that a motorist is deemed to have given consent to each type of enumerated alcohol test; section 1547(a) clearly does not permit the motorist to select from the enumerated tests which test he will perform, nor does it limit the police to which type of test they may require. Smith at 1270 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any person who drives, operates or is in actual physical control of the movement of a motor vehicle in this Commonwealth shall be deemed to have given consent to one or more chemical tests of breath, blood or urine for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content of blood or the presence of a controlled substance. . . .”
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.