Commonwealth v. Phillips

How courts have described this case

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

• officer’s mere observation of ornate smoking pipe in defendant’s car did not provide probable cause for seizure of pipe under plain view doctrine because such pipes are not illegal per se in that they can be used to smoke either legal or illegal substances
• officer's mere observation of ornate smoking pipe in defendant's car did not provide probable cause for seizure of pipe under plain view doctrine because such pipes are not illegal per se in that they can be used to smoke either legal or illegal substances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Stevenson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 73×
• Caplan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-08-18· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Fink
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-24· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Kelly
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Huff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-22

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pinno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-27· cited 33×
• Thomas v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1972-01-18· cited 26×
• People v. Ortiz
  California Court of Appeal· 1969-09-02· cited 17×
• State v. Parks
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1971-06-17· cited 12×