388 Pa. Super. 187 - Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
states following
March 1999
most recently cited
40 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · Dunaway v. New York · Michigan v. Chesternut · California v. Southland Royalty Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A noncustodial detention or ‘forcible stop’ occurs when a police officer temporarily detains an individual by means of physical force or a show of authority for investigative purposes. In order to justify a forcible stop under the fourth amendment, the police must point to specific and articulable facts that, taken together with the rational inferences from those facts, reasonably indicate that criminal activity may be afoot.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We note that the Chestemut decision is consistent with Pennsylvania search and seizure jurisprudence. For many years, Pennsylvania courts have applied a similar test in order to determine whether a defendant abandoned property as a result of an illegal police seizure of the person.”
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.