Commonwealth v. Ellis

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that “the administration of a blood test is a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment if it is performed by an agent of the government”
• providing that “the administration of a blood test is a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment if it is performed by an agent of the government”
• providing that “the administration of a blood test is a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment if it is performed by an agent of the government”
• stating where hospital personnel take blood for their own reasons and then freely volunteer the results to police, hospital personnel do not act as agents of the police
• stating where hospital personnel take blood for their own reasons and then freely volunteer the results to police, hospital personnel do not act as agents of the police
• “[T]he primary purpose of the exclusionary rule is to deter unlawful police conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grays
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-25· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-26· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Serge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-03· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-28· cited 32×
• In re D.E.M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-18· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Whitehead
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-03· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-19· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Franz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-12-01· cited 6×
• In Re DEM
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-18
• Tompkins v. VanOrden
  Centre County Court of Common Pleas· 2003-07-08

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-03· cited 144×
• Commonwealth v. Corley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-23· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Cieri
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-09-18· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Hipp
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-05· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Danforth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-06-14· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-09-30· cited 10×