Commonwealth v. Gibson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that consent to search was ineffective even though defendant was not seized at the time that police sought his consent to search
• holding that exigent circumstances alone was insufficient to justify warrant-less search of an apartment
• holding convictions for summary offense of underage drinking reversed where police lacked probable cause to enter apartment for search that yielded evidence of minors consuming alcohol
• holding convictions for summary offense of underage drinking reversed where police lacked probable cause to enter apartment for search that yielded evidence of minors consuming alcohol
• reversing convictions for the summary offense of underage drinking where the police lacked probable cause for the search that produced the central evidence
• reversing convictions for the summary offense of underage drinking where the police lacked probable cause for the search that produced the central evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Rogers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-05-27· cited 167×
• Jones v. City of Philadelphia
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-01-25· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Cleckley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-23· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Luv
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-22· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-08· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Petroll
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-22· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-17· cited 97×
• In the Interest of O.A.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-08-20· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-17· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-25· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Gillespie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-04-25· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Acosta
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-01-15· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-23· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Eichler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-02-02· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Blasioli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-07· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Keller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-05· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-08-04· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-21· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Bowmaster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-17· cited 37×
• In the Interest of B.C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-10· cited 34×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Gerstein v. Pugh
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-18· cited 4,350×
• Welsh v. Wisconsin
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-15· cited 1,874×
• Berger v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 1,212×
• Commonwealth v. Sudler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-10-14· cited 80×
• United States v. Blalock
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1966-06-22· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-16· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Bentley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-07· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-09-15· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Frank
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-16· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Stapinski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 3×