Commonwealth v. Potts

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “officers were not required to ignore the marijuana they saw in [the a]ppellant’s bedroom while conducting [a protective] sweep”
• concluding that “officers were not required to ignore the marijuana they saw in [the a]ppellant’s bedroom while conducting [a protective] sweep”
• concluding that “officers were not required to ignore the marijuana they saw in [the a]ppellant’s bedroom while conducting [a protective] sweep”
• concluding that “officers were not required to ignore the marijuana they saw in [the a]ppellant’s bedroom while conducting [a protective] sweep”
• finding that totality of the circumstances justified entry to ensure that occupant was not in danger
• stating that “[i]f, while conducting a [protective sweep], the officer should, . . . discover contraband other than weapons, he clearly cannot be required to ignore the contraband” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Caple
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-07-24· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-11-14· cited 42×
• Com. v. McMaster, D., Jr.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-06-25· cited 2×
• 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×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-01-12

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Michigan v. Long
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 3,763×
• Maryland v. Buie
  Supreme Court· 1990-03-05· cited 2,122×
• Michigan v. Fisher
  Supreme Court· 2009-12-07· cited 389×
• Ryburn v. Huff
  Supreme Court· 2012-01-23· cited 193×
• Commonwealth v. Galvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 188×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-05-23· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-12-23· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Farnan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-10-11· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Witman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-28· cited 30×
• Carrabba v. Randalls Food Markets, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2001-10-29· cited 21×