Commonwealth v. Thompson

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the appellant’s furtive movements, along with his proximity to the cocaine and his admission that other drugs could be found in the location where the cocaine was found, evidenced joint constructive possession
• reversing for a new trial when driver of vehicle in which defendant passenger and drugs were found had not only a prior drug conviction, but also had pending drug charges at the time of defendant’s trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-12· cited 192×
• Commonwealth v. Weiss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-31· cited 185×
• Commonwealth v. Estepp
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-18· cited 175×
• Commonwealth v. Einhorn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-14· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-17· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Tielsch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-23· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Battle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-08· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Dix
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-01· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Cox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-29· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-20· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Bergen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-06-17· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Gill
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-03-28· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Price
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-28· cited 4×
• Com. v. Bowens, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-01-17· cited 1×
• Com. v. Cox, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-29
• Commonwealth v. Yale, E., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-29
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-12-14
• In the Interest of Johnson
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2011-03-07

Cites

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

• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 330×
• Commonwealth v. MacOlino
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-27· cited 227×
• Commonwealth v. Mudrick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-10· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Fortune
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-23· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-08-04· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Swerdlow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-04· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Aguado
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-06· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Boyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Heidler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-09· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Wall
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-02-26· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Hude
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 47×
• United States v. Mark A. Thomas and Sabrina A. Richards, A/K/A Sabrina A. Riggs
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-12-15· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Morales
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-01-03· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. McGowan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-12-09· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Ward
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-24· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Juliano
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-22· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Price
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-07-08· cited 38×
• United States v. Isidro Sanchez Ochoa, Omar Sanchez Ochoa, Reynaldo Fuentes Ortega, and Juanita Alaniz Cavazos
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-01-04· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz Ortega
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-28· cited 28×