334 Pa. Super. 170 - Commonwealth v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2014
15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Massachusetts v. Sheppard · Commonwealth v. Riggins · Commonwealth v. Martin · Commonwealth v. Hamlin · Commonwealth v. Chandler
Most-quoted passages
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“Although not dispositive of the case, one cannot ignore the evidence that neither [Graham] nor his wife held steady jobs. Mrs. Graham had been employed at minimum wage for three unconsecutive (sic) years. As for [Graham], he received a disability payment of $400 a month, had not worked for approximately 5 years prior to his arrest and was supporting a family of three on his disability check. Yet the Grahams managed to own several vehicles and some 19 guns.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All these facts point to a profitable drug business. To hold that the money seized by the authorities was not "derivative contraband" traceable to the sale of drugs by the [defendant] would be to ignore the realities and to take a myopic view of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence outside the warrant affidavit[] on the issue of probable cause. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.