Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 12/27/2001
Commonwealth v. Key
Citations
- 789 A.2d 282
- 2001 Pa. Super. 375
- 2001 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3523
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that merely walking away from the police does not provide reasonable suspicion
- stating that “[a]n individual’s act of merely walking away from police officers in a ‘high crime area’ is manifestly insufficient to justify an investigative detention of that individual.”
- collecting cases that establish the principle that the “act of merely walking away from police officers in a ‘high crime area’ is manifestly insufficient to justify an investigative detention of that individual”
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Judges: Sole, Cavanaugh, Cercone
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13 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. BostickSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-30· cited 127×
- Commonwealth v. BySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-02· cited 57×
- Commonwealth v. CampbellSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-11-22· cited 35×
- Commonwealth v. ChambersSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-21· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. GuessSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-13· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. MoultrieSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-03· cited 16×
- Commonwealth v. Gorbea-LespierSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-23· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-25· cited 12×
- Com. v. Boyd, J.Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-06-13· cited 12×
- Commonwealth v. Cost, H., Aplt.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-01-22
- Commonwealth v. McKownCentre County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-04-28
- Commonwealth v. PerezBerks County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-07-30
- Commonwealth v. OrtizBerks County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-05-10
Cites
32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
- Schneckloth v. BustamonteSupreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
- Illinois v. WardlowSupreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 4,162×
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 3,107×
- Reid v. GeorgiaSupreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 1,109×
- Commonwealth v. StricklerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 408×
- In the Interest of D.M.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-18· cited 270×
- Commonwealth v. CookSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-23· cited 242×
- Commonwealth v. MatosSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-26· cited 208×
- Commonwealth v. EllisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-19· cited 193×
- Commonwealth v. FreemanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 124×
- Commonwealth v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 121×
- Commonwealth v. BeasleySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-23· cited 119×
- Commonwealth v. LewisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-01-28· cited 91×
- Commonwealth v. PhinnSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-16· cited 80×
- Commonwealth v. PoloSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-02· cited 76×
- Commonwealth v. HarrisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 75×
- Commonwealth v. McCleaseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-28· cited 70×
- Commonwealth v. MendenhallSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-29· cited 69×
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