Commonwealth v. Booth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding evidence was admissible under common plan, scheme, design exception
• upholding § 5101 conviction of sheriff of Susquehanna County and warden of the county jail after he was found to have provided alcohol to an inmate and permitted the inmate to escape
• claimed defects in certain counts of criminal complaint were moot where defendant was acquitted on these charges
• evidence of prior offenses properly admitted: all involved inmate in county jail being invited to sheriff’s quarters and offered alcohol, appellant then made sexual advances to each inmate, and sexual activity was always of some variety

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-13· cited 237×
• Mitchell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-27· cited 86×
• Derouen v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-11-20· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Middleton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-28· cited 40×
• Tanner v. Allstate Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-04· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Schwartz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-20· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Snyder
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-01-18· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Laurenson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-16· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-08-14· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-11· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Claypool
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-02-02· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Hartzell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-10-14· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Newman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-12· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-23· cited 3×
• Shannon Troy Derouen v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-05-02
• Commonwealth v. Baracca
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-09-04

Cites

40 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 471×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Wable
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-05-23· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 168×
• Commonwealth v. Triplett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-23· cited 147×
• Commonwealth v. Harper
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Burdell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-01-03· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Ulatoski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Fortune
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Wicks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-13· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Boulden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-09-28· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Shively
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-01-30· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Doyle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-19· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-06-06· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Foose
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-07· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Bradley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-09-27· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Hude
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Valentin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-21· cited 44×