Commonwealth v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that police may rely solely upon facts and information supplied by another person so long as there is a substantial basis for trusting the source and credibility of the information
• Incident to a lawful arrest, a police officer may conduct a warrantless search of the arrestee’s person to protect the officer from weapons to which arrestee may have access

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ariondo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-31· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. George
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-27· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Mallory
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-22· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Cofoni
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-10· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Ball
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-08-08· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-07-02
• Commonwealth v. Serrano
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2012-12-03

Cites

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

• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-03-28· cited 4,796×
• Brown v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-26· cited 4,589×
• Chambers v. Maroney
  Supreme Court· 1970-10-12· cited 4,391×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• Cady v. Dombrowski
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 2,465×
• United States v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 1,806×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Texas v. White
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-01· cited 409×
• Commonwealth v. Dancer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 407×
• Commonwealth v. Twiggs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 298×
• Commonwealth v. Pettus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-05· cited 291×
• Commonwealth v. Travaglia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-29· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-10· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Jeffries
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Clemmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-28· cited 135×
• 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. Sharpe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Timko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-24· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 64×