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.

• concluding that whether police obtained or could have obtained an anticipatory search warrant was irrelevant where they possessed valid grounds to search and an exception to the warrant requirement (an investigatory detention)
• holding that, when initiating the subject investigative detention, “not only was it proper for [the officers] to draw their weapons, but it would have been imprudent and dangerous not to draw their weapons, considering the danger”
• noting that investigative detention was “not made improper because the officers drew their guns”
• finding no arrest where multiple police officers approached defendant in his car with guns drawn

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-20· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Dix
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-01· cited 60×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Phinn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-16· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Glass
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-20· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Reviera
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-09-08· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Glass
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-09-15· cited 14×