Commonwealth v. Chambers

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding no reasonable suspicion existed where the defendant was walking on a street in a high-crime area and took a step back after a probation officer called out his name
• stating probationers’ and parolees’ Fourth Amendment constitutional rights are virtually indistinguishable
• “To institute an investigative detention, an officer must have at least a reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-02· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Gould
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-05-09· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-12-12· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Sperber
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-12· cited 12×
• Com. v. Kuhlman, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-07-27· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Price
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-28· cited 4×
• Com. v. Sperber, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-12

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Knights
  Supreme Court· 2001-12-10· cited 1,478×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-25· cited 502×
• Commonwealth v. DeWitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-20· cited 144×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-21· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. McClease
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-28· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Goldsborough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-28· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-13· cited 66×
• AMERIKOHL MIN. CO., INC. v. Peoples Natural Gas Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-24· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Pickron
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-12-02· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Keller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-05· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Colon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-03-03· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-08-09· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Rosenfelt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-11· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Key
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-27· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Altadonna
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-13· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Gayle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-13· cited 10×