2002 Pa. Super. 261 - Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2023
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Alabama v. White · United States v. Knights · Commonwealth v. Zhahir · Commonwealth v. Brundidge
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 9912. Supervisory relationship to offenders (a) General rule.—Officers are in a supervisory relationship with their offenders. The purpose of this supervision is to assist the offenders in their rehabilitation and reassimilation into the community and to protect the public. (b) Searches and seizures authorized.— (1)Officers and, where they are responsible for the supervision of county offenders, State parole agents may search the person and property of offenders in accordance with the provisions of this section. [[Image here]] (c) Effect of violation.—No violation of this section shall constitute an independent ground for suppression of evidence in any probation and parole or criminal proceeding. (d) Grounds for personal search.— (1) A personal search of an offender may be conducted by an officer: (i) if there is a reasonable suspicion to believe that the offender possesses contraband or other evidence of violations of the conditions of supervision; (ii) when an offender is transported or taken into custody; or (iii)upon an offender entering or leaving the securing enclosure of a correctional institution, jail or detention facility. (2) A property search may be conducted by an officer if there is reasonable suspicion to believe that the real or other property in the possession of or under the control of the offender contains contraband or other evidence of violations of the conditions of supervision. (3) Prior approval of a supervisor shall be obtained for a property search”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a.1) Authority to search. (1) Probation officers may search the person and property of children: (i) under their supervision as delinquent children or pursuant to a consent decree in accordance with this section; * * * * (2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit searches or seizures in violation of the Constitution of the United States or section 8 of Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania. (3) No violation of this section shall constitute an independent ground for suppression of evidence in any proceeding. (4) (i) A personal search of a child may be conducted by any probation officer: (A) If there is a reasonable suspicion to believe that the child possesses contraband or other evidence of violations of the conditions of supervision. * * * * (vi) The existence of reasonable suspicion to search shall be determined in accordance with constitutional search and seizure provisions as applied by judicial decision. In accordance with that case law, the following factors, where applicable, may be taken into account: (A) The observations of officers. (B) Information provided by others. (C) The activities of the child. (D) Information provided by the child. (E) The experience of the probation officer with the child. (F) The experience of probation officers in similar circumstances. (G) The prior delinquent and supervisory history of the offender. (H) The need to verify compliance with the conditions of supervision. * * * * (c) Definitions. As used in this se”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“can arise from information that is less reliable than that required to show probable cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.