Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• probable cause justified warrantless arrest of rape suspect matching general description of a “black man with a mustache” who was detained within minutes of the initial police report after he was spotted running from the area where the rape occurred and fled from police

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-04· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Browne
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-27· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Hoffman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-18· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Chase
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-23· cited 36×
• In the Interest of A.P.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-07· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Lumpkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. DeMarco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-27· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-28· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-16· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Burke
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-07-26· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-22· cited 12×
• State v. Rodriguez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1988-04-20· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Kenon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-21· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Mansberry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-05· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Norris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-11· cited 5×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-12· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-20· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Nation
  Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas· 1990-09-04
• Arena v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-02-29
• Commonwealth v. Robertson
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 1986-04-23

Cites

25 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×
• Manson v. Brathwaite
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 5,119×
• Commonwealth v. Kichline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 312×
• Commonwealth v. Sparrow
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Cropper
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Cheatham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Polsky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-13· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Luddy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-31· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Powers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Hunt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Wroten
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-22· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Sharp
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-22· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Tolbert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-06-24· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. MacKey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-18· cited 20×
• Wrigley v. Wrigley
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Richbourg
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-22· cited 19×