Commonwealth v. Pratt

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A]llowing police officers to control all movement in a traffic encounter . . . is a reasonable and justifiable step towards protecting their -4- J-A14015-24 safety.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-20· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-13· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. MacK
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-11· cited 62×
• Com. v. Malloy, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-05-07· cited 56×
• Com. v. Ross, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-06-20· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Palmer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-08-04· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Guess
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-13· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Dunham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-29· cited 13×
• Com. v. Wright, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-12-19· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Husky
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-08-03
• Commonwealth v. Bacon
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-01-14
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-07-28
• Commonwealth v. Mickel
  Mercer County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-11-09
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2011-01-28
• Com. v. Toliver, I.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-03-27

Cites

39 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×
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-05· cited 3,269×
• Maryland v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1997-02-19· cited 1,555×
• Brendlin v. California
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-18· cited 1,523×
• Commonwealth v. Edmunds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-04· cited 776×
• State v. Mendez
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-01-28· cited 310×
• Commonwealth v. Matos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-26· cited 208×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-29· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Gonsalves
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-06-14· cited 162×
• Frances Rogala v. District of Columbia and Ephriam Williams, Officer, Badge 4357
  D.C. Circuit· 1999-03-03· cited 149×
• United States v. Gary Moorefield AKA Maurice Gordon
  Third Circuit· 1997-04-04· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-21· cited 108×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-01-26· cited 107×
• Jones v. City of Philadelphia
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-01-25· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Pollard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Glass
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-20· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Elliott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-05· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Timko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-24· cited 73×
• State v. Sprague
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2003-02-21· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-25· cited 52×