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 that evidence obtained following arrest based upon invalid arrest warrant must be suppressed despite officer’s belief that the warrant was valid
• recognizing that Pennsylvania’s exclusionary rule “not only serve[s] the same privacy-based function it was deemed to serve in Edmunds, but also … serve[s] some generalized deterrence function”
• holding trial court properly suppressed physical evidence seized by police incident to arrest based solely on invalid, expired arrest warrant
• rejecting good faith exception for trooper relying on incorrect computer report that appellant had an active arrest warrant
• declining to apply the good-faith exception to allow introduction of evidence seized pursuant to an arrest made on an invalid warrant
• declining to apply the good-faith exception to allow introduction of evidence seized pursuant to an arrest made on an invalid warrant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Charleston
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-06· cited 278×
• Com. v. Heidelberg, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-11-23· cited 101×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Dunnavant, G.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-29· cited 15×
• State of Iowa v. Maurice D. Angel and Kemia B. McDowell
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-04-21· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-10-10· cited 9×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Hopkins, L., Jr.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-30· cited 7×
• State v. McElrath
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2019-03-12· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Bergamasco
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-10-16· cited 6×
• Com. v. Fleet, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-16
• Amended July 5, 2017 State of Iowa v. Maurice D. Angel and Kemia B. McDowell
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-04-21
• State of Tennessee v. Jerome Antonio McElrath
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2019-03-12
• Commonwealth v. Britton, S., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-04-22
• Commonwealth v. Wolfel, K., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-21
• State v. Soto
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2018-10-19
• Commonwealth v. Stevenson, R., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-07-22
• Commonwealth v. Bradley, A., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-10-20
• Com. v. Coles, L.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-11-14

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• United States v. Leon
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 9,230×
• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Brown v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-26· cited 4,589×
• Stone v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 4,303×
• United States v. Ross
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-01· cited 3,985×
• California v. Hodari D.
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-23· cited 3,670×
• New York v. Belton
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 3,483×
• Elkins v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-27· cited 2,501×
• Smith v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-20· cited 2,305×
• Oliver v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,923×
• United States v. Salvucci
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,879×
• Wolf v. Colorado
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-27· cited 1,554×
• Herring v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-14· cited 1,549×
• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 1,497×
• Murray v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-27· cited 1,424×
• United States v. Miller
  Supreme Court· 1976-04-21· cited 1,197×
• Commonwealth v. Edmunds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-04· cited 776×
• Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation and Parole v. Scott
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 588×