Commonwealth v. Sanders

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[m]erely because a police officer knows someone … does not suggest that the person has been engaged in prior criminal activity. A policeman may know someone because they reside in the same neighborhood or for any other number of reasons.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Potts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-29· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-08· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Speller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-11· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Barba
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-22· cited 21×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 242×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 4×