Commonwealth v. Burton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• authorizing plain view seizure of marijuana from auto without reference to exigent circumstances
• authorizing plain view seizure of marijuana from auto without reference to exigent circumstances
• “officer’s discovery, albeit with the aid of a flashlight, of marijuana in plain view was not improper”
• lawful plain view seizure of bag of marijuana on seat of car placed officer in lawful position to make lawful plain view seizure of cocaine which then came into view

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Graham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-22· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Lapia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Chiesa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-06· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Graham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-22· cited 18×
• Samuels v. Hendricks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-21· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Dincel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-13· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Shenkin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-09· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-29· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Corish
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-05· cited 8×
• Com. v. Herlth, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-03-24· cited 1×
• Com. v. Herlth, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-06-05