Commonwealth v. Sheridan

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding stop although suspect was not wearing a hat or the same type of coat reported in a radio bulletin
• stop was proper even though the defendant wore a different color and type of coat from the description, and he lacked the described hat
• stop was proper even though the defendant wore a different color and type of coat from the description, and he lacked the described hat
• lawful stop even though defendant was wearing an overcoat and not a raincoat as described, coat was a different color than the one described, and defendant was not wearing a hat as described where stop was three blocks from scene of crime at 3:00 a.m.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-12-15· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Lapia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Petrino
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-20· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Hook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-15· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Glessner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-04· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Sheridan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-01· cited 2×

Cites

33 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×
• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Carroll v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-26· cited 7,454×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3,736×
• Dunaway v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 3,633×
• Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-05· cited 3,591×
• Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-29· cited 3,217×
• Brown v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-25· cited 2,679×
• Preston v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-23· cited 1,905×
• Reid v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 1,109×
• Chapman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-04-03· cited 891×
• Commonwealth v. Hicks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-04-23· cited 263×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 156×
• Commonwealth v. Jeffries
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Berrios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 117×
• United States v. Margeson
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1966-09-16· cited 67×