Commonwealth v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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

• striking the victim with a gun may be used to satisfy the force requirements of at least two crimes against the victim, kidnapping and aggravated assault; the sentences for each crime will not merge because these crimes are not greater and lesser included offenses
• “We recognize that merger may concern either sentences or offenses” but that “Pennsylvania law concerns the merger of sentences.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rodriquez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-27· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Gatling
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-01· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-29· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Everett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-09· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Rosario-Hernandez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-20· cited 13×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-26· cited 251×