Commonwealth v. Evans

How courts have described this case

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

• experienced officer’s observations of either drugs or containers commonly known to hold drugs is one factor to be considered in determining whether probable cause exists for warrantless arrest
• when reviewing a motion to suppress evidence, we must consider only the evidence of the appel-lee’s witnesses, together with so much of the evidence for the prosecution that, read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontradicted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 257×
• Commonwealth v. Luv
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-22· cited 102×
• In the Interest of O.A.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-08-20· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Stevenson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-17· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Hudson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-30· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. El
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-31· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-09-13· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Dunlap
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-28· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Gelineau
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-06-13· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Stroud
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-26· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Whiting
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-01-31· cited 14×
• In the Interest of C.C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-17· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Winfield
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-14· cited 7×
• In Re CC
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-17
• Commonwealth v. Shaw
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-07-14
• Com. v. Hoyle, N.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-05-16

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Texas v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-19· cited 3,147×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-16· cited 308×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-05· cited 301×
• Commonwealth v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-18· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. DeWitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-20· cited 144×
• United States v. Jairo Cardona-Rivera and Gustavo Luna Sanchez
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-06-12· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Gibson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-08· cited 97×
• United States v. Pedro Moreno, Carlos Libreros
  Second Circuit· 1990-02-12· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Banks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-12· cited 85×
• United States v. Jimmy Barrios-Moriera
  Second Circuit· 1989-03-30· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Burnside
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-20· cited 54×
• United States v. Pedro Jolio Prandy-Binett
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-05-11· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Weidenmoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-04· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Norwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-05-23· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Barnett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Mallory
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 22×
• United States v. Sergio Robles, Also Known as Felix Luis Rivera, and Luis Cruz
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-10-19· cited 18×