Commonwealth v. Robinson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding a state constitutional analysis balancing an automobile passenger’s privacy rights with a police officer’s safety yields no different results than would a Federal Constitutional examination
• holding a state constitutional analysis balancing an automobile passenger's privacy rights with a police officer's safety yields no different results than would a Federal Constitutional examination
• distinguishing Pollard factually and reiterating that “where there is a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity or of a passenger’s being armed and dangerous, a police officer may order a passenger to alight from a vehicle that has been stopped for a traffic violation”
• evidence sufficient to establish intent to deliver where the defendant possessed thirty-eight (38) vials of crack cocaine, had no paraphernalia which would be conducive to immediate consumption, and where a qualified expert found these circumstances indicative of an intent to deliver
• “The jury was free to accept or reject the opinion testimony of the expert witness. If accepted by the jury, as it clearly was, it provided an adequate basis upon which to conclude that the Commonwealth proved the intent to deliver element of the crime charged.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-14· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Pratt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-20· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Harper
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-16· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-17· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Rosenfelt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-11· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-16· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-28· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Montavo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-10· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-21· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Sherrell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-04-30· cited 11×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-15· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Grosso
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-27· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 1993-07-26· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Gray
  Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas· 1993-08-16

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• New York v. Class
  Supreme Court· 1986-02-25· cited 728×
• Commonwealth v. Pollard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Elliott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-05· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Parsons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-07· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Smagala
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-24· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Ramos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-12· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. McLean
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-02· cited 19×