Commonwealth v. Conte

How courts have described this case

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

• characterizing as “mere encounter” 2 Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968
• finding a mere encounter where a police officer stops to help a stopped vehicle
• “Indeed, our expectation as a society is that a police officer’s duty to serve and protect the community he or she patrols extends beyond enforcement of the Crimes Code or Motor Vehicle Code and includes helping citizens….”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-04· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Fuller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-31· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Thran
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-05-02· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Kendall
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-05-29· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-12-17· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Livingstone v. Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-11-27
• In Re: Appeal of M. Johnson ~ Appeal of: M. Johnson
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-05-19

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-19· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Johonoson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-01-26· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-26· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Fulton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-09· cited 27×