Commonwealth v. Hall

How courts have described this case

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

• holding evidence was sufficient to establish the defendant’s constructive possession of contraband found, some in plain sight, in an apartment where others had been present
• holding evidence was sufficient to establish constructive possession where police recovered drugs, scales, packaging material, and defendant’s documents in a one-bedroom apartment
• holding evidence was sufficient to prove appellant constructively possessed drugs and packing materials found in his apartment where the contraband was found both in plain view and hidden in living room
• stating that the Commonwealth does not “have to disprove others’ constructive possession of the contraband, or establish which of the others was in joint possession, in order to present legally sufficient evidence” of a defendant’s constructive possession
• finding no merit to Appellant’s suppression, sufficiency, weight and jury instruction issues
• “The Commonwealth may meet its burden of proving a possessory crime by showing actual possession, constructive possession, or joint constructive possession”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. Layer, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-06-25· cited 1×
• Com. v. Hightower, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-06-25· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Maryland v. Buie
  Supreme Court· 1990-03-05· cited 2,122×
• Commonwealth v. Widmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 1,854×
• Commonwealth v. Clay
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-02-08· cited 985×
• Commonwealth v. Kane
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-11-29· cited 273×
• Commonwealth v. Vargas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-31· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Sandusky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-02· cited 194×
• Commonwealth v. Baez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-11-23· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-23· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Chambers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-18· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-03· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Hoffman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-10-31· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Feathers
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-31· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Lohr
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-22· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Juliano
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-22· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-18· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Hewlett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-05· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Crouse
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-23· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-07-01· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Ocasio
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-19· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Carlson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-13· cited 16×