People v. Pearson

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant merely being seen coming from a back room of a place open to the public is insufficient to constitute constructive possession of contraband found there

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

39 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Manini
  New York Court of Appeals· 1992-03-31· cited 340×
• People v. Gordon
  New York Court of Appeals· 1990-10-23· cited 50×
• People v. Edwards
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1994-07-14· cited 23×
• Mendez v. City of New York
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-03-08· cited 22×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1994-11-28· cited 14×
• People v. Butts
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1991-11-14· cited 13×
• People v. Eldridge
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1991-05-09· cited 9×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2015-11-18· cited 7×
• People v. Arnold
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2009-03-24· cited 7×
• People v. Scott
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1994-07-05· cited 7×
• People v. Holloway
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2022-11-23· cited 7×
• People v. Manson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-01-11· cited 6×
• People v. Vega
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1991-08-26· cited 5×
• People v. Mejie
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-09-14· cited 5×
• People v. Hojas
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2000-04-10· cited 5×
• People v. Pilgrim
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2002-04-01· cited 5×
• People v. Glassman-Blanco
  Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York· 2013-12-09· cited 5×
• Martinez v. Reynolds
  E.D. New York· 1995-05-30· cited 4×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-12-30· cited 4×
• People v. Hamilton
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2002-02-04· cited 4×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Headley
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-10-12· cited 36×
• People v. Robertson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-01-03· cited 32×
• People v. Russell
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-06-13· cited 31×
• People v. Watson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-04-07· cited 30×
• People v. Dawkins
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-01-25· cited 24×
• People v. Tejeda
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-03-30· cited 21×
• People v. Phiefer
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-11-21· cited 17×
• People v. Gina
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-02-01· cited 15×
• People v. Headley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-10-24· cited 15×
• People v. Siplin
  New York Court of Appeals· 1971-12-01· cited 12×