Commonwealth v. Perry

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that police may push open a door which is already partially opened for announcing identity, authority and purpose
• where door already partially opened, the police may push it open further before announcing identity, authority and purpose

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Eliff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-11· cited 37×
• State v. Sakellson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-12-18· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Golden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-25· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-28· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Beard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-12-05· cited 6×
• In Re Return of Property Confiscated October 30, 1999 From 411 East Mac Dade Boulevard
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-07-29· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Vega
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 1991-02-27

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sabbath v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 529×
• Commonwealth v. Bosurgi
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-16· cited 463×
• United States v. Francisco Bustamante-Gamez, United States of America v. Abelardo Garcia-Ramirez
  Ninth Circuit· 1973-10-24· cited 153×
• People v. Peterson
  California Supreme Court· 1973-07-16· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-04-16· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Soychak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-24· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Chinea
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Clemson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-04-22· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Mazzella
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-12-11· cited 17×