Commonwealth v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “mere suspicions” of a possible crime “do not constitute probable cause to support a search warrant”
• upholding warrantless morning reentry into single-family home where fire officials sought to determine cause and origin of fire
• firemen may seize evidence of arson found in plain view while investigating the cause and origin of a fire
• firemen may seize evidence of arson found in plain view while investigating the cause and origin of a fire
• “[Foremen may seize any evidence which is in plain view of the cause and origin of the fire” (emphasis added)
• “We do not hold that a fire authorizes a search for all times thereafter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Edmunds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-04· cited 776×
• Commonwealth v. Albrecht
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-23· cited 654×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-02-16· cited 433×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-11-10· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Jung
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-26· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Bagley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-30· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Marconi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-23· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-28· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Person
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-04-25· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Iannelli
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-18· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Cope
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-12-08· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Luddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-24· cited 2×
• State v. Hommes
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2021-12-27
• Commonwealth v. Torres & Cruz
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1993-01-21
• Commonwealth v. Person
  Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas· 1988-05-10

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-02-02· cited 3,856×
• Michigan v. Tyler
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-31· cited 1,386×
• Commonwealth v. Bosurgi
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-16· cited 463×
• Commonwealth v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-09· cited 417×
• Michigan v. Clifford
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-11· cited 346×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-08-10· cited 3×