Commonwealth v. Coleman

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that because a successful challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence warrants automatic discharge rather than retrial, we address that issue first
• holding an anonymous tip that the appellant was selling drugs and had been cited for driving with a suspended license was a bare bones allegation that fell short of the quality and quantity of information required to corroborate a search of the appellant’s residence
• finding sufficient evidence supported possession of drug paraphernalia where police recovered cocaine and digital scale
• holding an anonymous tip that the appellant was selling drugs and had been cited for driving with a suspended license was a bare bones allegation that fell short of the quality and quantity of information required to corroborate a search of the appellant’s residence
• “[F]or an anonymous tip to give rise to reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, it must be of sufficient quality that it may be found reliable.”
• “Since a sufficiency claim warrants automatic discharge rather than retrial, we address -4- J-A26002-18 that issue at the outset.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-19· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. McClellan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-01-26· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Neysmith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-28· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Jordan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-05-29· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Morrison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-21· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Quiles
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-23· cited 18×
• Com. v. Enos, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-08
• Com. v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-03-16

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Alabama v. White
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 3,282×
• Commonwealth v. Watley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-25· cited 414×
• Commonwealth v. Ratsamy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-20· cited 275×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-16· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-21· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Wimbush
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-17· cited 50×
• In the Interest of T.B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-10-26· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-31· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Goodwin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-17· cited 24×
• In the Interest of J.E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-08· cited 18×