239 Pa. Super. 256 - Commonwealth v. Wiggins’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
January 1984
most recently cited
25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rogers v. Loether · Commonwealth v. Blair · Commonwealth v. Kloiber · Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus · Commonwealth v. Simon
Most-quoted passages
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“Appellant contends that probable cause to arrest was lacking because the [identification by Snead was not even tentative] and because the other information possessed by the officer was uncorroborated. However, it is established in this Commonwealth that tentative identifications are sufficient even to sustain a conviction. Commonwealth v. Kloiber, 378 Pa. 412 , 106 A.2d 820 (1954). Certainly, no more is required for an arrest. Furthermore, it has never been the law of the Commonwealth that a victim’s statements must be corroborated before an arrest can be made.”
1 later decision 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.