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.

• “The probable cause necessary to support an arrest ... cannot demand the same strictness of proof as the accused’s guilt upon a trial[.]”
• police, acting on information from a confidential informant, and executing a search warrant for defendant’s friend’s apartment, had probable cause to arrest defendant where police uncovered narcotics in close proximity to where defendant had been sleeping

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Salter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-04· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Donnelly
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Zimmerman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-11-14· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Dennis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 15×
• People v. Summers
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1976-04-26· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-18

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• Commonwealth v. Bosurgi
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-16· cited 463×
• Commonwealth v. Hicks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-04-23· cited 263×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-08-04· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. TIRPAK
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-07· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Reece
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Ellsworth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-03-22· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Whitner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. One 1958 Plymouth Sedan (McGonigle)
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-06-30· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Goslee
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 18×