Commonwealth v. Shannon

How courts have described this case

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

• police officer’s entry into curtilage area was reasonable in response to a “fight in progress” radio report, the evidence obtained while trespassing was admissible
• police officer's entry into curtilage area was reasonable in response to a \fight in progress\ radio report, the evidence obtained while trespassing was admissible
• police officer’s entry into curtilage area was reasonable in response to a “flight in progress” radio report, the evidence obtained while trespassing was admissible
• police officer's entry into curtilage area was reasonable in response to a \flight in progress\ radio report, the evidence obtained while trespassing was admissible
• where officers were lawfully in driveway and observed fight through kitchen window, “the occupants’ failure to close [the] window largely negates their expectation of privacy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Carelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-15· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. McKeirnan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-04· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Oglialoro
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-09-01· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Novak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-09-28· cited 4×
• Com. v. Herlth, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-06-05

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 471×
• Commonwealth v. Soychak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-24· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Daniels
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-23· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-27· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Stortecky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-12-22· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-08· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 15×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Curry v. Myers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-06-15· cited 15×