258 Pa. Super. 294 - Commonwealth v. Legg’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
January 1985
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Chimel v. California · Adams v. Williams · Draper v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
Most-quoted passages
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“Were we to conclude that [the officer] lacked probable cause to arrest on these facts, especially given Appellant’s flight from answering any questions, we would, in effect, be requiring that [he] simply “shrug his shoulders and allow ... a criminal to escape”, since no intermediate approach was feasible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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