Commonwealth v. Alford

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding trial court abused discretion in instructing jury that “officers were in fact making or attempting a lawful arrest”
• warrantless arrest was lawful where the summary offense of disorderly conduct involved both a breach of the peace and a danger to personal safety
• arrest for underage drinking authorized where behavior amounted to disorderly conduct.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-27· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Bullers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-29· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-11· cited 8×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Maddox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-10· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Shillingford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-08· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Stortecky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-12-22· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Franklin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 17×