Commonwealth v. Chamberlain

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that envelopes were recognizable as a common drug-packaging device
• where driver of automobile attempted to conceal weapon, Terry stop and frisk of both driver and companion upheld.
• Terry type of limited intrusion extends to companions of arrestee capable of accomplishing the harmful result
• manilla envelopes, which are commonly used for drug packaging, were properly seized when they were observed in \plain view\ during course of a protective Terry search
• the plain view doctrine is not an independent exception to the warrant requirement, but rather, it is an extension of whatever the prior justification for the officer’s access to the object may be
• warrantless search of manila envelopes held to be lawful

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Elliott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-05· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. MacK
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-11· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-16· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Kearney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-13· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Ariondo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-31· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Kendrick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Schneider
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-07-24· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Marconi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-23· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Baer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-06· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Bowers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-11· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Kue
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-22· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Dennis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-08· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-25· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Speaks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-21· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-06· cited 22×
• In Interest of Nl
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-09-20· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Mallory
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-27· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-27· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Graham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-22· cited 18×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Payton v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-15· cited 7,618×
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-05· cited 3,269×
• Texas v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-19· cited 3,147×
• Illinois v. Andreas
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 626×
• United States v. Raymond J. Berryhill
  Ninth Circuit· 1971-08-03· cited 137×
• Commonwealth v. Trenge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-01· cited 82×
• United States v. Ralph Donald Tharpe
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-08-13· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 60×
• United States v. Alan Martin Poms
  Fourth Circuit· 1973-09-26· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-06-05· cited 43×
• United States v. Victor Del Toro
  Second Circuit· 1972-07-25· cited 36×
• Lewis v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-03-15· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Hook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-15· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Collini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-02-23· cited 16×