Commonwealth v. Rivera

How courts have described this case

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

• where no exigencies exist to justify a warrantless search, police should have secured premises and obtained a warrant prior to search; since no warrant was obtained prior to search of apartment, evidence should have been suppressed
• where no exigencies exist to justify a warrantless search, police should have secured premises and obtained a warrant prior to search; since no warrant was obtained prior to search of apartment, evidence should have been suppressed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-24· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Plusquellic
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-08-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Stainbrook
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-13· cited 26×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Chadwick
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-21· cited 2,561×
• Commonwealth v. Silo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-10-03· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-07-08· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 18×