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.

• dismissing an “object[ion] to the use of the word ‘restrain’, and [the] suggest[ion that] ‘hesitate’ is a more appropriate standard”
• dismissing an “object[ion] to the use of the word ‘restrain’, and [the] suggest[ion that] ‘hesitate’ is a more appropriate standard”
• denying relief on identical claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Edmunds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-04· cited 776×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-21· cited 295×
• Thomas v. Horn
  Third Circuit· 2009-07-01· cited 253×
• Commonwealth v. DeJohn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-17· cited 216×
• Commonwealth v. Sattazahn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-24· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Melilli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-13· cited 121×
• Callis v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1985-01-14· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Hailey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Ryan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Katsafanas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-05· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. McKeirnan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-04· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Bennie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-05-01· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Wise
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-30· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Ryles
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-18· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Shepherd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-07· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Metts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-06· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-11· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Lybrand
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-07· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Whitfield
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-25· cited 11×

Cites

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

• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Johnson v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 3,002×
• Linkletter v. Walker
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 2,898×
• Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1920-03-01· cited 2,373×
• Nardone v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1939-12-11· cited 1,927×
• Desist v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-26· cited 1,237×
• Tehan v. United States Ex Rel. Shott
  Supreme Court· 1965-11-15· cited 740×
• Williams v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05· cited 659×
• Lewis L. Wayne v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1963-04-04· cited 479×
• Commonwealth v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-22· cited 220×
• Commonwealth v. Garvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 218×
• United States v. Antranik Paroutian
  Second Circuit· 1962-02-09· cited 126×
• James W. Harlow, Charles E. Wilson and Thomas F. Addy v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-04-30· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-01-21· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Bishop
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-04-18· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Banks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Whitaker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-05-12· cited 82×