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.

• observing that “due to the nature of the potential danger, an officer’s concerns can only increase with the number of occupants in a car” (italics in original)
• as part of a lawful traffic stop, a police officer may order occupants out of a vehicle, given the inherent risk associated with vehicle stops
• to mitigate danger in traffic stops, police “may request both drivers and their passengers to alight from a lawfully stopped car without reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Reppert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-10· cited 239×
• Commonwealth v. Gonsalves
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-06-14· cited 162×
• Com. v. Spence, O.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-15· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Pratt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-20· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. MacK
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-11· cited 62×
• Com. v. Bumbarger, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-03-16· cited 43×
• Com. v. Ross, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-06-20· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-11-22· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Shelly
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-18· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Rosa
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-22· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Wilmington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-31· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-06-17· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Dunham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-29· cited 13×
• Com. v. Singletary, W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-12-17· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Fontanez
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-15· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Epoca
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-06· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Grosso
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-27· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Moyer
  Carbon County Court of Common Pleas· 1996-11-19
• Commonwealth v. Silfies
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 1996-05-01
• In re J.H.
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 1999-12-21

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-05· cited 3,269×
• Commonwealth v. Edmunds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-04· cited 776×
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-14· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Brundidge
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-02-18· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Pollard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Elliott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-05· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Mimms
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Mimms
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Baer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-25· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Dorsey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-09· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Lucas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-03-08· cited 8×
• United States v. McCoy
  D. Delaware· 1993-05-25· cited 6×