Commonwealth v. York

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an informant’s information may provide adequate data to establish probable cause if the basis for the information and his/her reliability, when examined under a totality-of-circumstances test, are established
• “in this jurisdiction, the two-pronged test of Aguilar-Spinelli has been abandoned in favor of the [Illinois v.] Gates[, 462 U.S. 213, 103 S.Ct. 2317, 76 L.Ed.2d 527 (1983
• “[w]here police officers have probable cause to believe a vehicle is carrying contraband, they may conduct a search of the vehicle as thorough as a district justice could authorize in a warrant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Fromal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-22· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Agnew
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-17· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Marconi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-23· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-19· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Knotts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-09· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-27· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Leet
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-23· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-04· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-11· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 1991-11-06
• Commonwealth v. Torres & Cruz
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1993-01-21
• Commonwealth v. Kirkpatrick
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-09-30

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• United States v. Ross
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-01· cited 3,985×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-16· cited 308×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-05· cited 301×
• United States v. Jesus Zambrana, Sr., Charles Cole and Jay Zambrana
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-03-07· cited 138×
• United States v. Leisure
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-04-25· cited 93×
• Bush v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-01-26· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-03· cited 30×
• State v. Green
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1988-05-04· cited 18×
• People v. Beck
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-03-22· cited 11×
• Goldsby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-03-03· cited 8×