Commonwealth v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the appellant periodically babysat the child-victim, changed the victim’s diapers, and played with the victim
• opining that “[p]roof that such adults were actually supervising a child requires evidence that the adult was involved with the child.”
• finding evidence sufficient to prove live-in boyfriend was a person supervising child where the boyfriend played with child, babysat child, and otherwise interacted with child
• boyfriend convicted of endangering the welfare of his girlfriend’s child where he lived with the child, periodically babysat, changed diapers, and played with the child
• applying section 4304 to unrelated individual residing with child
• “In an age when nontraditional living arrangements are commonplace, it is hard to imagine that the common sense of the community would serve to eliminate adult persons residing with a noncustodial child from the scope of a statute protecting the physical and moral welfare of children”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Leatherby
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-21· cited 362×
• Commonwealth v. Trippett
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-24· cited 168×
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-11-26· cited 104×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Lynn, W.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-27· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Popow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-02-18· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-21· cited 58×
• Staples v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-04-17· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Kearns
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-31· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Spanier
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-26· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Lynn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-26· cited 10×
• M. Fetterman v. Westmoreland County Children's Bureau; ~ Appeal of: Westmoreland County Children's Bureau
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-04-28

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Marlin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. MacK
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Bayard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Kellam
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-23· cited 24×