Commonwealth v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that section 5704(2)(ii) does not “set forth a specific length of time during which a consent remains viable.”
• approving procedure whereby the attorney general interviewed the informant to ensure continued voluntary consent for each authorized period of interceptions
• approving procedure whereby the attorney general interviewed the informant to ensure continued voluntary consent for each authorized period of interceptions
• approving of a procedure where a deputy attorney general conducted a telephone interview with an informant to determine the voluntariness of his consent to a second ten-day period of interceptions
• per Section 1902, the trial court “was not free to attach such significance to the presence or absence of an ‘s’ at the end of the word ‘communication’”
• a court may not conclude that a word in a statute shall be construed in the singular or plural merely because of “the presence or absence of an ‘s’ at the end of ... [such] word”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Meadows
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-06· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Spence
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-09-21· cited 7×
• Com. v. Lissmore, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-03-07· cited 2×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Simon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-27· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Cliff
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-24· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Reddix
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-08-06· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Rough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-13· cited 55×
• Springer v. Allegheny County
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-11-15· cited 43×
• United States v. Baynes
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1975-09-05· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Gregory
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-21· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Checca
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-12· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-27· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-01· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Lacy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-02-10· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriquez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-17· cited 8×
• United States v. Baynes
  Third Circuit· 1975-06-27· cited 4×