452 Pa. Super. 200 - Commonwealth v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
September 2009
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Cortez · Berkemer v. McCarty · Florida v. Bostick
Most-quoted passages
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“[A mere encounter] need not be supported by any level of suspicion, but carries no official compulsion to stop or to respond. [An investigative detention] must be supported by a reasonable suspicion; it subjects a suspect to a stop and a period of detention, but does not involve such coercive conditions as to constitute the functional equivalent of an arrest. [A custodial detention (or arrest) ] must be supported by probable cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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