Commonwealth v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• uniformed officer's deception as to the reason for wanting suspect’s gun did not render the consensual relinquishment of the gun unlawful
• uniformed officer's deception as to the reason for wanting suspect's gun did not render the consensual relinquishment of the gun unlawful
• Fourth Amendment does not protect a wrongdoer’s misplaced belief that a person in whom he voluntarily confides his wrongdoing or evidence will not reveal it.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Quiles
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-04· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Carelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-15· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Morrison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-21· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Donnelly
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Danforth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-06-14· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Vernille
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-27· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Harry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-04-22· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Slaton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-31· cited 23×
• Donald Leroy Brown v. Joseph R. Brierley
  Third Circuit· 1971-02-19· cited 14×
• Greenspun v. Schlindwein
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1983-11-25· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Orzel
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 1984-09-13
• Commonwealth v. Beharry
  Mercer County Court of Common Pleas· 1976-01-07

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Hoffa v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-12· cited 2,107×
• Gouled v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1921-02-28· cited 1,256×
• Lopez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-27· cited 983×
• Lewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-01-09· cited 885×
• The United States of America v. Louis C. Viale, Marino J. Faliero, Sr., Joseph S. Pinnavia, Louis a.abbonando, Anthony F. Fino and Nicholas S. Longo
  Second Circuit· 1963-01-31· cited 121×
• United States v. Gordon R. Thompson
  Second Circuit· 1965-12-06· cited 115×
• United States v. Ruth Smith
  Second Circuit· 1962-09-18· cited 114×
• Ramona Cipres and Juan Montes Deoca v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1965-03-18· cited 95×
• Allan L. Robbins, Warden, Maine State Prison v. Kenneth MacKenzie
  First Circuit· 1966-10-17· cited 91×
• United States v. Anthony Como
  Second Circuit· 1965-01-26· cited 60×
• Emil Schoepflin and William Smith v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1968-01-02· cited 59×
• United States v. Albert Haden
  Seventh Circuit· 1968-07-01· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-16· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Gooslin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-03-19· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-09-15· cited 37×
• United States v. Lewis
  S.D. New York· 1967-07-28· cited 33×
• United States v. Lipshitz
  E.D. New York· 1955-06-24· cited 27×
• United States v. Reckis
  D. Massachusetts· 1954-03-05· cited 27×