Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 6/28/1972
Commonwealth v. Bailey
Citations
- 448 Pa. 224
- 292 A.2d 345
- 1972 Pa. LEXIS 451
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- finding that the Commonwealth need not \establish guilt to a mathematical certainty\ and a case may rest entirely upon circumstantial evidence, as long as the conviction is based on more than conjecture
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Judges: Jones, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino
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55 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. FarquharsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 388×
- Commonwealth v. SullivanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 264×
- Commonwealth v. JeffriesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 151×
- Commonwealth v. RoscioliSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 137×
- Commonwealth v. PronkoskieSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-26· cited 118×
- Commonwealth v. PronkoskieSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 94×
- Commonwealth v. AfricaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 89×
- Commonwealth v. OatesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 87×
- Commonwealth v. StanleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 76×
- Commonwealth v. GoodmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 59×
- Commonwealth v. FieldsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 50×
- Commonwealth v. BradySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-21· cited 47×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-03· cited 46×
- Commonwealth v. RamboSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-20· cited 37×
- Commonwealth v. CichySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 37×
- Commonwealth v. StevensSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-12-01· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. EddingtonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 29×
- Commonwealth v. RamboSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 29×
- Commonwealth v. WagamanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-21· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. HermanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 26×
Cites
14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. KravitzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-04-18· cited 174×
- Commonwealth v. CoyleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-10-14· cited 166×
- Commonwealth v. GarrettSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-09-27· cited 124×
- Commonwealth v. CarrollSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-11-12· cited 103×
- Commonwealth v. SimpsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 90×
- Commonwealth v. CimaszewskiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 77×
- Commonwealth v. CollinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-10-09· cited 75×
- Commonwealth v. FinnieSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-07-01· cited 67×
- Commonwealth v. RadfordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-01-09· cited 58×
- Commonwealth v. OsborneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-01-15· cited 57×
- Commonwealth v. COHENSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-03-19· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. ThomasSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-19· cited 24×
- Commonwealth v. WalkerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-01-03· cited 16×
- Commonwealth v. SullivanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 8×
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