Commonwealth v. Torres

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the denial of severance of gun and drug possession case and an assault of police officers case was within a trial court’s discretion where the drug evidence provided a motive for Torres’s flight from and subsequent violent resistance to the police
• noting that “[s]ome federal courts have held that it is reasonable to infer that drug traffickers will often keep drug-related evidence in their residences and businesses”
• finding no probable cause to search residence for firearms when the search would not produce the firearm used in the shooting
• finding no probable cause to search residence for identification of shooter, when his identification was not in doubt
• “The fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine excludes evidence obtained from, or acquired as a consequence of, lawless official acts.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
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Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. Kurtz, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-04-28· cited 83×
• Com. v. Ani, N.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-04-17· cited 31×
• Com. v. Nicholson, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-09-27· cited 16×
• State v. Chacon
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2021-03-18· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson, L., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-10-21

Cites

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

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• United States v. Leon
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 9,230×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Staples v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-23· cited 1,491×
• Commonwealth v. Edmunds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-04· cited 776×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-02-16· cited 433×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 330×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-05· cited 301×
• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-30· cited 221×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-01-18· cited 158×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-22· cited 153×
• Commonwealth v. DeHart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-03· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-30· cited 123×
• United States v. Williams
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-10-16· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-21· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Harvard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-25· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Mollett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-08-17· cited 110×
• United States v. Jones
  Third Circuit· 1993-05-28· cited 108×
• United States v. James Regis Whitner, Jr., A/K/A Jr
  Third Circuit· 2000-07-20· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-12-15· cited 93×