Commonwealth v. Peterson

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[e]xigent circumstances can be generated when evidence sought to be preserved is likely to be destroyed or secreted from investigation . . ..”
• finding that squatter could not claim Fourth Amendment right to privacy in abandoned structure
• in opinion affirming the warrantless search of an uninhabitable abandoned store front, dissenting judge and concurring judge agreed that if the abandoned store front had been a shelter for the homeless, privacy rights should have attached
• in opinion affirming the warrantless search of an uninhabitable abandoned store front, dissenting judge and concurring judge agreed that if the abandoned store front had been a shelter for the homeless, privacy rights should have attached

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Melendez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-05-22· cited 195×
• Commonwealth v. Millner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-28· cited 122×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Enimpah, A.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-29· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-05· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Govens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-28· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Arnold
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-21· cited 37×
• Whiting v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-11-08· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-15· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Glass
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-09-15· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Metts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-06· cited 14×
• State v. Cleator
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-09-07· cited 10×
• People v. Herner
  New York Supreme Court· 1993-01-26· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-15· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Flowers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-15· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Mullins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-06· cited 1×
• People v. Van Houten
  New York County Courts· 1998-04-29
• Commonwealth v. Govens
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-04-27

Cites

72 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Hudson v. Palmer
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-03· cited 8,014×
• Rakas v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 6,103×
• United States v. Ross
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-01· cited 3,985×
• Boyd v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1886-02-01· cited 3,820×
• United States v. Chadwick
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-21· cited 2,561×
• Rawlings v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 2,425×
• Smith v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-20· cited 2,305×
• Oliver v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,923×
• United States v. Salvucci
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,879×
• McDonald v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-12-20· cited 1,736×
• Minnesota v. Olson
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 1,715×
• Stoner v. California
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-18· cited 1,576×
• Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-23· cited 1,428×
• California v. Ciraolo
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 1,253×
• Poe v. Ullman
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 1,202×
• Blystone v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1990-02-28· cited 551×
• Robbins v. California
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 503×
• Commonwealth v. Sell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-30· cited 268×