Commonwealth v. Blake

How courts have described this case

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

• pocket knife not designed as weapon in absence of description of size and shape of knife or blade to enable court to make such determination
• “When the court determines that the defendant . . . possessed a deadly weapon, as defined in 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 2301 . . .”
• “While there is no requirement that the victim actually be in immediate danger of serious injury, the device or instrumentality must be used in a manner that could cause serious bodily injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Hardy
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-05-09· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Duxbury
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-12· cited 4×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Gatto
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-09-22· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. McKeithan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-31· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Chapman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-22· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. McMullen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-17· cited 10×