Commonwealth v. Epps

How courts have described this case

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

• “broken rear vent window, as understood by those versed in the field of law enforcement, constituted sufficient grounds to give rise to reasonable suspicion”
• “It is well settled that to justify their decision to stop and briefly detain appellant, the police need not establish their suspicions to a level of certainty, a preponderance, or even a fair probability.”
• under facts similar to Elam and the present case, the court said, “the broken rear vent window, as understood by those versed in the field of law enforcement, constituted sufficient grounds to give rise to reasonable suspicion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Logan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-12-20· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-16· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Hayward
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-27· cited 55×
• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-09-13· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-03· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Valentin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-03· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-02-26· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Shelly
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-18· cited 35×
• In the Interest of B.C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-10· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Fink
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-24· cited 32×
• Com. v. Knupp, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-22· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Thran
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-05-02· cited 25×
• In Interest of Nl
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-09-20· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-21· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Rogers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-22· cited 17×
• United States v. Wendell T. Jackson
  D.C. Circuit· 1997-05-20· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-24· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Collazo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-21· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1993-10-06· cited 3×
• Logan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-29· cited 3×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• United States v. Sokolow
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-03· cited 4,647×
• Florida v. Bostick
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 4,435×
• Alabama v. White
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 3,282×
• United States v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 2,970×
• Commonwealth v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-18· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-23· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Patterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-29· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Blassingale
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-02· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Mayo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-02· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-28· cited 12×