Commonwealth v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a seizure occurs upon a command to stop from a police officer
• holding that, in assessing whether there was a detention, the court will view all circumstances (…continued) Constitution, we have always followed Terry in stop and frisk cases. Commonwealth v. Jackson, 698 A.2d 571, 573 (Pa. 1997
• explaining that “whether a ‘stop’ occurs is not dependent on the presence or absence of any force; rather, it is dependent on the amount of force exercised”
• finding the officer’s request that an individual be seated in the car supported the conclusion that the individual was seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment because, “while stated as a question, it sought control of [the individual’s] movement”
• there is nothing in the Constitution which prevents a police officer from approaching a person on the streets-in order to make an inquiry
• there is nothing in the Constitution which prevents a police officer from approaching a person on the streets in order to make an inquiry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Strickler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 408×
• Commonwealth v. Reppert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-10· cited 239×
• Commonwealth v. Lovette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-05· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Matos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-26· cited 208×
• Pap's A.M. v. City of Erie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-19· cited 179×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-23· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Matis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-02-24· cited 109×
• Jones v. City of Philadelphia
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-01-25· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-13· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Banks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-12· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Trenge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-01· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Douglass
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-14· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-24· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Ranson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-08· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-29· cited 69×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-24· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-23· cited 67×
• Waring v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-09-09· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Gillespie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-04-25· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Arch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-15· cited 56×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• William H. Fuller v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-03-03· cited 199×
• Sheilah C. Hicks v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-07-07· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Berrios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 117×
• Eugene R. Frazier v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-06-21· cited 80×
• Paul J. Coates, Jr. v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-04-07· cited 58×
• United States v. McKethan
  District of Columbia· 1965-11-03· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 32×