Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 9/19/1997
Commonwealth v. Brown
Citations
- 700 A.2d 1310
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine excludes evidence obtained from or acquired as a consequence of unlawful official acts
- “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine generally requires exclusion of evidence obtained from, or acquired as consequence of, lawless official acts
- “[t]he burden rests on the Commonwealth to demonstrate that the secondaiy evidence was gathered by means sufficiently distinguishable from any illegality so as to be ‘purged of its primary taint’ rather than derived from exploitation of the illegality.”
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Judges: Cercone, Cirillo, Johnson
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9 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-23· cited 56×
- Commonwealth v. KitchenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-05-19· cited 49×
- Commonwealth v. GatlosSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-09-10· cited 44×
- Commonwealth v. SasseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-05· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. WatkinsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-21· cited 21×
- Commonwealth v. LukachSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-04-11· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. AbbasSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-29· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. OrtizBerks County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-05-10
- Commonwealth v. BarbatiLawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-03-05
Cites
28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
- Johnson v. New JerseySupreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 3,002×
- Oregon v. ElstadSupreme Court· 1985-03-04· cited 2,824×
- Carnley v. CochranSupreme Court· 1962-04-30· cited 1,897×
- Commonwealth v. DeWittSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-20· cited 144×
- Commonwealth v. ChackoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-27· cited 138×
- Commonwealth v. OglialoroSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-23· cited 59×
- Commonwealth v. AriondoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-31· cited 53×
- Commonwealth v. HubbleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-16· cited 49×
- Commonwealth v. WareSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 47×
- Commonwealth v. CunninghamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 46×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-07· cited 40×
- Commonwealth v. McGroganSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-17· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. BennettSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-03· cited 37×
- Commonwealth v. BrooksSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 35×
- Commonwealth v. LowenbergSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. PresburySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-21· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. HillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-29· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. TuckSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-25· cited 19×
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