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.

• mere approach of police followed by questioning is not a seizure
• applying Bostick’s totality of circumstances test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

47 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 257×
• Commonwealth v. DeJesus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-21· cited 224×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-20· cited 154×
• Commonwealth v. Lyles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-21· cited 152×
• Com. v. Spence, O.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-15· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Clemens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-15· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Page
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-02-03· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. McAdoo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-06· cited 124×
• Jones v. City of Philadelphia
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-01-25· cited 104×
• Com. v. Heidelberg, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-11-23· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-17· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Au
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-04-26· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Adams, E., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-26· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Barnett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-07-31· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Yasipour
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-17· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-18· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Moyer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-08-01· cited 64×
• Pennsylvania Bankers Ass'n v. Pennsylvania Department of Banking
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-16· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Taggart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-06-17· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Johonoson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-01-26· cited 53×

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Florida v. Bostick
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 4,435×
• Stansbury v. California
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-26· cited 2,603×
• California v. Beheler
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 2,048×
• Ohio v. Robinette
  Supreme Court· 1996-11-18· cited 2,025×
• Minnesota v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 1,569×
• United States v. Drayton
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-17· cited 1,084×
• Beckwith v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-04-21· cited 1,005×
• Commonwealth v. Edmunds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-04· cited 776×
• In the Interest of D.M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-18· cited 270×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-19· cited 193×
• Commonwealth v. Swanger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 193×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-09-18· cited 185×
• Commonwealth v. Zhahir
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-05-19· cited 176×
• Commonwealth v. O'Shea
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-13· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-18· cited 130×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-26· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Cleckley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-23· cited 104×