Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 4/14/1986
Commonwealth v. Carroll
Citations
- 507 A.2d 819
- 510 Pa. 299
- 1986 Pa. LEXIS 758
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that defendant constructively possessed a controlled substance where officers found drugs and paraphernalia hidden throughout husband and wife’s shared motel room
- “[J]oint control will not prevent a finding of constructive possession in one of the individuals . . . .”
- evidence was sufficient for the jury to conclude that a husband had constructive possession of drugs found in woman’s pants in a hotel room he rented with his family
- “Constructive possession by its nature is not amenable to ‘bright line’ tests.”
- “Constructive possession by its nature is not amenable to ‘bright line’ tests.”
- defendant, his wife and his step-daughter were staying in a hotel room; defendant constructively possessed drugs found in the pocket of a pair of his wife’s pants that were lying on the floor as well as drug paraphernalia located throughout hotel room
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Hutchinson, Zappala, Papadakos
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18 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. MudrickSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-10· cited 170×
- Commonwealth v. BattleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-08· cited 76×
- Commonwealth v. HeidlerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-09· cited 71×
- Jamel Evans v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2015-08-06· cited 54×
- Jackson v. ByrdThird Circuit· 1997-03-04· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. StembridgeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-21· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. GrekisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-14· cited 23×
- Commonwealth v. AvilesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-22· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. WoodySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-02· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. GloverSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-11-29· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. JacksonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-25· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. CarrollSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-08-11· cited 12×
- Commonwealth v. BrundidgeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-15· cited 12×
- Commonwealth v. O'KickiSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-20· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. HokeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-01-12· cited 11×
- DeVatt v. LohenitzE.D. Pennsylvania· 2004-10-01· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. HawkinsLawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2011-03-02· cited 1×
- Commonwealth v. Peters, A., Aplt.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-10-31
Cites
9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. MacOlinoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-27· cited 227×
- Commonwealth v. LovetteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-05· cited 211×
- Commonwealth v. MudrickSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-10· cited 170×
- Commonwealth v. FortuneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-23· cited 151×
- Commonwealth v. BachertSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-17· cited 137×
- Commonwealth v. DavisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-08-04· cited 136×
- Commonwealth v. ChenetSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 56×
- Commonwealth v. GilchristSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-05-23· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. CarrollSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-10-12· cited 3×
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