Commonwealth v. Morrison

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he fact that [the a]ppellant appeared nervous after the officers stopped and approached him does not provide reasonable suspicion for an investigative detention.”
• suppression granted under the totality of circumstances, as the quality and quantity of information provided by an unknown source was insufficiently reliable to establish reasonable suspicion
• defendant was subjected to investigative detention when officers in full uniform told him to stop a second time when he did not obey their first direction to stop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Luczki
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-07· cited 110×
• Com. v. Thomas, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-04-12· cited 36×
• Com. v. Rice, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-11-07· cited 33×
• Com. v. Brinson, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-12-09· cited 1×
• Com. v. Joyner, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-11-12· cited 1×
• Com. v. Phinn, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-11-18

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• 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. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-23· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Lyles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-21· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-23· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-02· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. DeHart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-19· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Ranson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-08· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Ayala
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-02-06· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Sierra
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-06· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-14· cited 37×