Commonwealth v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding police lacked reasonable suspicion based on an anonymous tip, with “only a general description was given, one which would fit any number of individuals,” and no corroboration of the tip
• distinguishing the facts before it from those of Adams on the ground, inter alia, that in Anderson the police were acting on an anonymous tip
• distinguishing the facts before it from those of Adams on the ground, inter alia, that in Anderson the police were acting on an anonymous tip
• anonymous tip with no corroboration not reasonable suspicion to justify pat down
• anonymous tip with no corroboration not reasonable suspicion to justify pat down

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Lovette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-05· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-23· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-18· cited 155×
• White v. United States; And Anderson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-13· cited 96×
• State v. Hetland
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-01-24· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-23· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Lagana
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-25· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Martinez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-23· cited 62×
• State v. Jernigan
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1979-12-13· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Cass
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-07· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Hayward
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-27· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Lapia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Daniels
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-23· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-31· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Barnett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-08· cited 26×
• In the Interest of Barry W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-03-02· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Collini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-02-23· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Whelton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-09· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Dincel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-13· cited 14×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3,736×
• Henry v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-11-23· cited 1,968×
• Davis v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-23· cited 1,385×
• Rios v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-27· cited 586×
• Commonwealth v. Berrios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Pinney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-04-22· cited 1×