Commonwealth v. Beasley

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that intent to intimidate may be proven by circumstantial evidence
• upholding a defendant's conviction for Terroristic threats where he threatened to kill two police officers
• finding defendant’s YouTube rap video, threatening police officers scheduled to testify, furnished sufficient evidence for inference of intent to interfere with administration of justice
• internal (2016) (internal citation citation and quotation marks and quotation marks omitted). omitted
• intent to terrorize shown where defendant posted the song in which he threatened to kill the victims on YouTube and a link to the song on his Facebook page despite advice that he should not, even though he did not send the song to the victims or directly communicate with the victims

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Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. McClellan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-01-26· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Richard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-11-15· cited 83×
• Com. v. Sexton, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-10-28· cited 79×
• State v. Taupier
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-09-11· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Hodges
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-16· cited 23×
• Com. v. Baker, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-04-04· cited 9×
• Com. v. Crosby, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-01-02· cited 1×
• State v. Borowski
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2016-07-22
• Robin Dale Kilgore Peppers v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-08-31
• Com. v. McGraw, L.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-09-04
• Com. v. Smith, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-04-10

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Elonis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-01· cited 553×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-25· cited 502×
• Commonwealth v. Hansley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-22· cited 477×
• Commonwealth v. Reynolds
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-27· cited 255×
• Commonwealth v. Poplawski, R., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-29· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Tizer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-10· cited 81×
• In the Interest of J.H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-04-15· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Haynes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-22· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Kelley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-17· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Collington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-05· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Hardwick
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-14· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Vergilio
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-06· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Cancilla
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-11-09· cited 15×