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.

• holding that where the words of a statute are clear and free from all ambiguity, they are presumed to be the best indication of legislative intent
• finding that an inmate had no constitutional right to privacy in his non-privileged prison mail
• no expectation of privacy when inmate “availed himself of the process that exposed his correspondence to the plain view of prison officials”
• no reasonable expectation of privacy in incoming and outgoing prisoner mail under Fourth Amendment
• no reasonable expectation of privacy in incoming and outgoing prisoner mail under Fourth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Prisk
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-28· cited 268×
• State v. Burnett
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-07-25· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Ruder
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-02-25· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Basking
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-04-14· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Faurelus
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-08-31· cited 22×
• Curley v. Wetzel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-17· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-10· cited 11×
• Sparkman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2009-03-26· cited 10×
• State v. Keith Allan Brown
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2013-09-06· cited 6×
• FRANCIS D. v. Commissioner of Correction
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2009-12-08· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Grahame
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-04-18· cited 3×
• Delaware Township Board of Auditors v. Delaware Township
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-01-05· cited 2×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Mason, B.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-03-25
• Gillen v. Trovato
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-06-17
• Wimms v. City of Philadelphia Civil Service Commission
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 2012-05-30