Commonwealth v. Corley

How courts have described this case

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

• “we hold that a citizen’s arrest can be made for a breach of the peace that is personally observed by the arrestor.”
• “[W]e hold that a citizen’s arrest can be made for a breach of the peace that is personally observed by the arrestor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Corley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-23· cited 70×
• Kopko v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-02-28· cited 49×
• Western Pennsylvania Socialist Workers 1982 Campaign v. Connecticut General Life Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-18· cited 35×
• In Re: Application of John Clader
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-02-24· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Copenhaver v. Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-04-22

Cites

26 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×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Carroll v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-26· cited 7,454×
• Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-25· cited 4,631×
• Ker v. California
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-10· cited 3,146×
• Cooper v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-02-20· cited 1,583×
• United States v. Di Re
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-19· cited 1,525×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Burdeau v. McDowell
  Supreme Court· 1921-06-01· cited 1,253×
• Commonwealth v. Hubbard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 854×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-10-06· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Logan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Eshelman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Dingfelt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 34×
• Eric L. Montgomery v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1968-12-23· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Borecky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-02· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Cosby
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Stahl
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-12· cited 18×
• Stanley Appeal
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-06-11· cited 18×