Commonwealth v. Cruz

How courts have described this case

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

• finding constructive possession of weapon demonstrated by, inter alia, the consciousness of guilt revealed when the defendant provided the officer with “five or six different names and multiple birthdates”
• holding Commonwealth established constructive possession where evidence was presented that appellant was seen moving toward where gun was located in car as soon as he was aware that he was being stopped by officers and exhibited consciousness of guilt
• “Illegal possession of a firearm may be shown by constructive possession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-12· cited 129×
• Com. v. Bowens, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-10-19· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Newman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-06· cited 19×
• Com. v. Moore, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-02-13· cited 7×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 478×
• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-05-13· cited 470×
• Commonwealth v. Brooks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-10-07· cited 203×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-12· cited 192×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-23· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Townsend
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-01-09· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-10-24· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-03· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Cauley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-11-29· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Clinton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-15· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Chenet
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Hayward
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-27· cited 55×
• In the Interest of D.M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-01· cited 52×
• Com. v. Conrad
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-10· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Wisor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Wiley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-23· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Hamm
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-28· cited 27×
• Com. v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-04-19· cited 19×