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 a police officer’s request to move out of a doorway constituted a mere encounter, as the officer did not act in a threatening or coercive manner
• loitering defendant not seized where police initially approached simply to speak to him and asked him to move away from a vacant building so officers could discern why the defendant had been there

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-13· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Downey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-21· cited 71×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In the Interest of D.M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-18· cited 270×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-04· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-08· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Hoopes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-01· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Conte
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-02· cited 17×