266 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Wheatley’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
April 1996
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi
Most-quoted passages
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“Nevertheless, there are several common threads which are apparent in the Platon and Sellers decisions. The first is that a warrant to search a person’s premises or effects includes the authority to search things under the control of that person. The second principle which emerges is that control by the person named in the warrant will more readily be found where the effects belong to a resident of the premises than where the item to be searched belongs to a casual visitor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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