Commonwealth v. Parker

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that appellate court could rely on suppression court’s Pa.R.A.P. 1925(a) opinion
• stating that indications that until after Officer Taylor showed up.”
• interaction was investigative detention where two officers stopped defendant by stationing their bicycles in front of him and suggested that defendant was involved in criminal activity
• “The combination of the threatening presence of several officers and the indication that appellant was suspected of criminal activity requires the conclusion that a reasonable person would believe that he was not free to leave.”
• “When the trial court does not enter findings of fact and conclusions of law during suppression proceedings, this Court may garner the trial court's findings of fact and conclusions of law from its Pa.R.A.P. 1925(a) opinion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Newsome
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-07· cited 51×
• 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. Singletary, W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-12-17· cited 10×
• Com. v. Joyner, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-11-12· cited 1×

Cites

23 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×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• In the Interest of L.J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-30· cited 659×
• Commonwealth v. Strickler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 408×
• Commonwealth v. Hicks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-04-23· cited 263×
• Commonwealth v. Reppert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-10· cited 239×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-07-24· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Matos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-26· cited 208×
• United States v. Kareem Brown
  Third Circuit· 2006-05-22· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Lyles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-21· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Clemens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-15· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-04· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Au
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-04-26· cited 87×
• United States v. Steven E. Saperstein
  Sixth Circuit· 1983-12-08· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-13· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-29· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Stevenson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-16· cited 62×
• State v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2011-04-01· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Gutierrez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-24· cited 46×