Commonwealth v. Richards

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant told he could not leave police car, though he was not under arrest — held, arrested
• defendant told he could not leave police car, though he was not under arrest — held, arrested
• white male, blondish thinning hair, medium height, “real skinny”, 30 years old; suspect arrested far from scene of crime, several days later
• defendant \asked\ to go to police headquarters
• defendant \asked\ to go to police headquarters
• dissenting opinion of Pomeroy, J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

46 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Lovette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-05· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Matos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-26· cited 208×
• People v. Lippert
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1982-02-19· cited 167×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-20· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Shoatz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-20· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Douglass
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-14· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-23· cited 67×
• State v. Byers
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-01-06· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Benson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-25· cited 62×
• Glass v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-02-20· cited 51×
• Dunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-11-05· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Bey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Ryan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Yocham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-07-08· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Casuccio
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-06· cited 34×

Cites

24 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×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Carroll v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-26· cited 7,454×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• Gilbert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,797×
• McCray v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-24· cited 1,521×
• Davis v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-23· cited 1,385×
• Commonwealth v. Bosurgi
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-16· cited 463×
• Commonwealth v. Garvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Agie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-17· cited 185×
• Commonwealth v. Whiting
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-07-02· cited 118×
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ex Rel. George W. Craig v. James F. Maroney, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1965-06-30· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Bishop
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-04-18· cited 107×
• Betrand Appeal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-04-13· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Holton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-10-11· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Hancock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Cephas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-05-25· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Henderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-07· cited 30×