Commonwealth v. Stratton

How courts have described this case

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

• “[tjhere is no question that flight alone, even upon seeing a police officer, would not be sufficient to justify stopping and searching the defendant”
• facts justifying investigatory stop included defendant’s presence at 12:08 a.m. in doorway of store that was closed and his leaving quickly at sight of approaching police officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Kreps
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2002-09-05· cited 136×
• People v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-03-28· cited 100×
• United States v. Johnson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1985-08-05· cited 44×
• Cobb v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-18· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Pine
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-27· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Dennis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-31· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Bedsaul
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-16· cited 5×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Commonwealth v. Hicks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-04-23· cited 263×
• Commonwealth v. Jeffries
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Berrios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 117×
• United States v. Margeson
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1966-09-16· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Pegram
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 62×
• Harvey Appeal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-09-15· cited 15×