Commonwealth v. Mathis

How courts have described this case

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

• Parole Code “does not otherwise reveal legislative intent to ‘empower parole agents to act as police officers with respect to non-offenders or private citizens’ ”
• Parole Code “does not otherwise reveal legislative intent to ‘empower parole agents to act as police officers with respect to non-offenders or private citizens’”
• parole agent’s search of defendant’s jacket was proper; defendant was at parolee’s home during routine check, appeared nervous, and picked up his jacket gently and held it “against his side like a football” as he moved into another room, when agent noticed a bulge in the jacket

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mathis, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-11-22· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Ramirez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-02-09· cited 2×
• Golden v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2021-04-15

Cites

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

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Ybarra v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 2,082×
• In the Interest of L.J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-30· cited 659×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-02-16· cited 433×
• Commonwealth v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-18· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Graham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-22· cited 74×
• Stanley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-10· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Luddy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-31· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Grahame
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-11-17· cited 45×
• People v. Rios
  California Court of Appeal· 2011-03-16· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Mesa
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-23· cited 39×
• West Mifflin Area School District v. Zahorchak
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-09-29· cited 33×
• People v. Howard
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-06-08· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Dobbins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-20· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Eichelberger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-28· cited 23×
• In Interest of Nl
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-09-20· cited 22×
• District of Columbia v. Brookstowne Community Development Co.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2010-01-21· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Graham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-22· cited 18×
• In re J.V.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-11-01· cited 16×
• Byrd v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1990-08-31· cited 13×