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.

• \The statute [S 2711] added to the list of offenses which allow police officers to make warrantless arrests . . .[i]t does not create a new class of criminal offenses.\
• \PA. R. CRIM. P.101 [now PA. R. CRIM. P. 502] allows an arrest without a warrant on probable cause when the offense is a misdemeanor not committed in the presence of the officer only when such arrest is specifically authorized by statute.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Clifton Myers A/K/A Samuel Jenkins, Clifton Myers
  Third Circuit· 2002-10-11· cited 191×
• Dye for McCoy v. McCoy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-03-02· cited 14×
• State v. Manista
  Delaware Family Court· 1994-06-29· cited 8×
• United States v. Myers
  Third Circuit· 2002-10-11
• Com. v. Gross, E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-04-29
• Commonwealth v. Moyer
  Carbon County Court of Common Pleas· 2004-03-29
• Counterman v. Shoemaker
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-03-09

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Commonwealth v. Brady
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-23· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-21· cited 63×
• Eichenlaub v. Eichenlaub
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-23· cited 3×