Commonwealth v. Torres

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence of individually wrapped bags of cocaine and the lack of paraphernalia for personal use of crack cocaine gave rise to an inference of intent to deliver
• absence -7- J-S41044-16 of paraphernalia for consumption of cocaine provides inference of intent to deliver
• evidence of individually wrapped bags of cocaine gave inference of intent to deliver
• absence of paraphernalia for consumption of cocaine gave inference of intent to deliver
• this court found sufficient evidence to affirm appellee’s conviction of intent to deliver where appellee’s vehicle contained 4.63 grams of cocaine wrapped in 17 packets, boxes of sandwich bags, $236.00 in cash, and expert testimony indicating an intent to deliver
• “In . . . Smagala and [Commonwealth v.] Gill, [415 A.2d 2 (Pa. 1980)], unlike the instant case, the appellants possessed use paraphernalia, which indicated an intent to consume rather than distribute the controlled substances involved.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-25· cited 502×
• Commonwealth v. Ratsamy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-20· cited 275×
• Commonwealth v. Aguado
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-06· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Drummond
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-25· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Little
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-07· cited 82×
• Ramiro Enrique Rojas v. Attorney General United States
  Third Circuit· 2013-08-23· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Conaway
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-01-15· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-17· cited 31×
• In the Interest of Evans
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-31· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-24· cited 10×
• Com. v. Bowens, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-01-17· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Dargon
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-03-11
• Commonwealth v. Urbina-Nevarez
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-02-27
• Commonwealth v. Pierre
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-10-12
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-12-14
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2011-01-28
• Commonwealth v. McDade
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2013-12-31
• Commonwealth v. Farris
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-06-17

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hardcastle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-10· cited 233×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-18· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-22· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Ariondo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-31· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Brady
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-21· cited 47×
• 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. Bagley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-26· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-11-05· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Pagan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-03· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Gill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 19×