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.

• concluding officers had reasonable suspicion to stop Smith where he met the description of a suspect obtained from a surveillance video, and was in close proximity to location of drug transaction in an area known for a high volume of drug activity
• “The handcuffing of a suspect, by itself, does not convert an investigative detention into an arrest.”
• officer may stop and briefly detain person for investigatory purposes when officer has reasonable suspicion, based on specific and articulable facts, that criminal activity may be afoot

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-02-22· cited 4×

Cites

24 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×
• Florida v. J. L.
  Supreme Court· 2000-03-28· cited 1,787×
• Florida v. JL
  Supreme Court· 2000-03-28· cited 1,350×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-25· cited 502×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-02-16· cited 433×
• Commonwealth v. Strickler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 408×
• Commonwealth v. Chase
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-26· cited 248×
• Commonwealth v. Matos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-26· cited 208×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. DeHart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-19· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Caban
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-12-18· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Polo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-02· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Rosas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-19· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Chernosky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-27· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-12· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Baldwin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-01· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-09-05· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-17· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Gommer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-10-05· cited 37×