Commonwealth v. Gillespie

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding search of item placed in plastic bin when defendant proceeded through magnetometer
• person does not have a “reasonable expectation of absolute privacy” in certain places “where all members of the public [are] subject to a routine search”
• “where regimes of suspicionless searches or seizures are designed to serve governmental special needs that exceed the normal demands of law enforcement, they will be upheld in certain instances” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• courthouse deputy opened pill bottle during screening

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Perel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-23· cited 74×
• Joseph William Russell v. The State of Wyoming
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2024-11-26· cited 1×
• Com. v. Perel, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-23
• People v. Long
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2025-08-11

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-25· cited 2,679×
• Chandler v. Miller
  Supreme Court· 1997-04-15· cited 524×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-01-03· cited 237×
• Commonwealth v. McCree
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-31· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Clemens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-15· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Gallagher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-28· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-23· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Beaman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-08-15· cited 31×
• Carrabba v. Randalls Food Markets, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2001-10-29· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Vecchione
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-13· cited 15×
• Lgl Animal Care Products, Inc. v. Humane Soc. of Northwestern Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-09-27· cited 7×
• Minich v. County of Jefferson
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-03-14· cited 5×