Com. v. Shackelford, J.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Our review of a challenge to a search warrant based on an affidavit of probable cause is limited to the information within the four corners of the affidavit.” (citations omitted)
• “[A] reviewing court may not conduct a de novo review of the issuing authority’s probable cause determination but, instead, is tasked simply with the duty of ensuring the issuing authority had a substantial basis for concluding that probable cause existed.” (quotation marks and citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Com. v. Choice, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-09-18

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Walker, T.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-01· cited 1,340×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 330×
• Commonwealth v. Jacoby, T., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-28· cited 229×
• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-30· cited 221×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-04-26· cited 203×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-30· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Melendez-Rodriguez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-24· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Lauro
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-27· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-07-25· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Ferguson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-01-05· cited 117×
• Com. v. Heidelberg, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-11-23· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Ortega
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-05-17· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Galendez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-24· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-18· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Caple
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-07-24· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Huntington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-16· cited 50×
• Com. v. Bumbarger, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-03-16· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Rogers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-01· cited 39×
• Com. v. Batista, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-27· cited 38×