Commonwealth v. Moore

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[t]he prior criminal and supervisory history of the offender” is a valid “factor[, which may be] taken into account to determine the existence of reasonable suspicion to search a probationer”
• finding that a probation officer had reasonable suspicion to stop and search Moore after receiving a tip from a known, reliable informant that Moore had crack cocaine on his person and was located in an area of high drug activity, and the officer observed Moore in that location
• “In establishing reasonable suspicion, the fundamental inquiry is an objective one, namely, whether the facts available to the officer at the moment of the [intrusion] warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that the action taken was appropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Koehler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-08· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Gould
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-05-09· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Chambers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-21· cited 32×
• Com. v. Knupp, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-22· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-26· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Curry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-05-12· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-12-12· cited 20×
• In the Interest of J.E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-08· cited 18×
• State v. Kottman
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2005-11-22· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Appleby
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-19· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-08-01· cited 7×
• Com. v. Kuhlman, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-07-27· cited 7×
• In Re JE
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-08
• Commonwealth v. Tsopanis-Sellari
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-09-22