Commonwealth v. Ferrari

How courts have described this case

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

• plain view of clown’s wig which officer believed had been used in robbery spree justified search and seizure of automobile
• police officer lawfully in position to observe incriminating evidence when looking in window of vehicle which was parked in public lot
• search of automobile was justified by the combined effort of the plain view exception and the automobile exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-31· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Hoffman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-18· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-16· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Marconi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-23· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-27· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Stroud
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-26· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Steinmetz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-31· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Jennings
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-21· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Hendrix
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-14· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Doria
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-03· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  York County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-11-02