Commonwealth v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding there was no reasonable cause for a nighttime search when the affidavit contained only information that defendant had drugs on the premises and the affiant’s unsubstantiated belief that those substances would be sold by the next day
• holding there was no reasonable cause for a nighttime search when the affidavit contained only information that defendant had drugs on the premises and the affiant's unsubstantiated belief that those substances would be sold by the next day
• remanding case for lower court to address several grounds for suppression not addressed in findings and conclusions including that the search warrant was issued on less than probable cause
• violation of Rule 2003(c) regarding nighttime searches does not require exclusion of evidence seized

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Edmunds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-04· cited 776×
• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-03· cited 144×
• Com. v. Bowens, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-10-19· cited 81×
• People v. Dyla
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-12-30· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-29· cited 37×
• Roth v. State
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2007-07-25· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Markman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-16· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Camperson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-02· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-21· cited 18×
• State v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-08-17· cited 14×
• United States v. Shelton
  D. Wyoming· 1990-06-18· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Crawford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-14· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Gentile
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-20· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Cason
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-01· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Mourar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-08-24· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Camera
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 1993-01-14
• Commonwealth v. Wiggins
  Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas· 2014-02-19

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Manson v. Brathwaite
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 5,119×
• Dunaway v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 3,633×
• United States v. Calandra
  Supreme Court· 1974-01-08· cited 3,415×
• United States v. Edward Marx, Frank Sladek and Keith Herring
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-01-27· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Musi
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-06· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Ehredt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 129×
• United States v. Jerry Wayne Searp
  Sixth Circuit· 1978-11-06· cited 107×
• Gooding v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-29· cited 98×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Rudolph Boyance v. David N. Myers, Superintendent
  Third Circuit· 1968-07-29· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Sexton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 64×
• United States v. James A. Dauphinee
  First Circuit· 1976-07-13· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Lapia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 54×
• United States v. Harold Loyd Vasser
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-01-07· cited 52×
• United States v. Cleo Burgard
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-03-23· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Ryan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-28· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-18· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Prokopchak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-13· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Baldwin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 18×