Commonwealth v. DeWitt

How courts have described this case

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

• flight, in and of itself, does not constitute reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct to justify stop
• vehicle’s right-hand wheels were parked very close to berm or shoulder
• flight alone does not constitute reasonable suspicion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-23· cited 242×
• Commonwealth v. Reppert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-10· cited 239×
• Commonwealth v. Gribble
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-20· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Banks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-12· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Adams, E., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-26· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Riley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-09· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Lindblom
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-07-13· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. McClease
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-28· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-29· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Namack
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-02· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-13· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Govens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-28· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Ruey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-06· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Powell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-03-31· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Wimbush
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-17· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Blasioli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-07· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Labron
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-29· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Dennis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-07-20· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Henley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-29· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-08-04· cited 42×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3,736×
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-05· cited 3,269×
• Michigan v. Summers
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 2,036×
• Commonwealth v. Lovette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-05· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-18· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Jeffries
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Hamlin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-28· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. James
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-09· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Elliott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-05· cited 75×
• Jarrad v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-10-07· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Iannaccio
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-21· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Monarch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-27· cited 53×

Other cases named Commonwealth v. DeWitt

6 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Commonwealth v. DeWitt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-12-11· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Dewitt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1813-05-15· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Dewitt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-19· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. DeWitt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-05-04
• Commonwealth v. Dewitt
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2001-01-30
• Commonwealth v. DeWitt
  Crawford County Court of Common Pleas· 1973-12-28