Commonwealth v. Stokes

How courts have described this case

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

• [holding] it is well settled that the uncorroborated confession of an accomplice which implicates the suspect will supply the probable cause for an arrest warrant
• victim and eyewitness information regarding the commission of a crime sufficient to establish probable cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Lovette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-05· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-20· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Zook
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-17· cited 102×
• State v. Montigue
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1980-01-22· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Weidenmoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-04· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Moss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-08· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-16· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-06· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-29· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-11· cited 33×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-05-27· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Plusquellic
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-08-06· cited 30×
• Waldrop v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-11-23· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Pytak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-20· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-29· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Thran
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-05-02· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. George
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-27· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Glover
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-20· cited 24×

Cites

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

• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-03-28· cited 4,796×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• Ker v. California
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-10· cited 3,146×
• United States v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 1,806×
• McCray v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-24· cited 1,521×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 156×
• Commonwealth v. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-29· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-10-12· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-04-07· cited 107×
• Betrand Appeal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-04-13· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Bradley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-09-07· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Kenney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-30· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Mamon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-17· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Richards
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Crawley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-11-17· cited 68×
• United States v. Herman P. Unger, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 1973-01-02· cited 58×
• United States v. Thurlester Wilson
  Seventh Circuit· 1973-05-23· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Norwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-05-23· cited 47×