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.

• distinguishing between an informant’s tip that is based upon “personal knowledge” and a tip that is based upon “common rumor or report”
• common report of neighbors with no corroboration that defendant stole ten-speed bicycle not reasonable suspicion to justify stop
• common report of neighbors with no corroboration that defendant stole ten-speed bicycle not reasonable suspicion to justify stop
• “officer may obtain sufficient information from an informant ... that, when coupled with the circumstances, gives rise to a reasonable suspicion that the appellant is presently involved in criminal activity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Arch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-15· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Lapia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Espada
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-15· cited 49×
• In the Interest of S.D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-05· cited 43×
• In the Interest of Jermaine
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-22· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Thran
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-05-02· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Vasquez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-10-28· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Mayo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-02· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Whelton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-09· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Otto
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-21· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Collazo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-21· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-11· cited 8×
• Brinker v. Guiffrida
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1985-08-26· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. MacK
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-29· cited 6×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• Commonwealth v. Kichline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 312×
• 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. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Berrios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-07-08· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-24· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Greber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 47×
• Payton v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-27· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-08· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. MacKie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-05-24· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Ferraro
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-12-01· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Galadyna
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. LeSeuer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-28· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Cruse
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 17×