Commonwealth v. West

How courts have described this case

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

• “The purpose of [the Drug Act] ... is to regulate the distribution of drugs, avoid abuse and insure proper medical use.”
• controlled substances statute proscribing obtaining possession of controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge applied to registered practitioners, as well as to lay persons

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Larsen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-05· cited 44×
• State v. Young
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-06-28· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Scatena
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-20· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Farone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-09-26· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Henry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-23· cited 6×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Lovasco
  Supreme Court· 1977-10-03· cited 2,170×
• Brown v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-07· cited 1,232×
• United States v. Moore
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-10· cited 316×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 168×
• Commonwealth v. Burdell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-01-03· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Martinolich
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Cluck
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-02· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Pfaff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Eckert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-12-15· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. McCloud
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-23· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Levenson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-04-12· cited 8×
• Com. Ex Rel. Rogers v. Ashe, Warden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1938-12-16· cited 6×