Commonwealth v. Baker

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing grant of suppression motion because the defendant failed to establish that the disclosure of the informant’s identity would have been helpful to his case
• “As this Court has repeatedly noted, there is an important ‘public interest in protecting the free flow of information’ in furtherance of effective law enforcement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-27· cited 184×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-29· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Whitlock
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-03· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Hudson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-30· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Newman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-06· cited 19×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roviaro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-03-25· cited 3,599×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-26· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Gallagher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-28· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-12-15· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Barber
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-08· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Belenky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-09· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Bonasorte
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-21· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Payne
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-22· cited 31×
• Com. v. Nunez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-03-06· cited 24×
• Com. v. Ingram
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-28· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. McCulligan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-13· cited 13×
• Universal Computer Consulting Inc. v. Pitcairn Enterprises, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-02· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. McGinn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-02· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-14· cited 10×
• In the Interest of R.S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-06· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-16· cited 4×