Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 7/3/1986
Commonwealth v. Butler
Citations
- 512 A.2d 667
- 354 Pa. Super. 533
- 1986 Pa. Super. LEXIS 11278
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- stating that for a conviction for resisting arrest, “[t]he fact that the officer was not injured is of no consequence[]”
- concluding sufficient evidence to affirm appellant’s aggravated assault conviction with respect to police officer where appellant punched officer one time, without causing bodily injury, and even though he alleged “intent was not to injure the officer but to flee the scene.”
- presence of other identification evidence negated need for Sexton charge
- unplanned stationhouse confrontation resulted in an admissible spontaneous identification
- unplanned stationhouse confrontation resulted in an admissible spontaneous identification
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Cirillo, Wieand, Olszewski
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13 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. JacksonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-16· cited 56×
- Commonwealth v. MelsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-09· cited 51×
- Commonwealth v. AgnewSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-12-17· cited 49×
- Ackler v. Raymark Industries, Inc.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-09· cited 42×
- Commonwealth v. SanchezSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-03· cited 33×
- Commonwealth v. DouglassSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-06· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. EvansSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-27· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. YorkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-01-11· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. GibbonsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-11-04· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. MalsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-01· cited 16×
- Commonwealth v. HannonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-25· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. BeverlySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-09-09· cited 4×
- Commonwealth v. PerezLehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 1991-11-06
Cites
22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Illinois v. GatesSupreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
- Neil v. BiggersSupreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
- Commonwealth v. MillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-16· cited 308×
- Commonwealth v. GraySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-05· cited 301×
- Commonwealth v. SwangerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 193×
- Commonwealth v. RichmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-05-22· cited 136×
- Commonwealth v. DrumgooleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-08· cited 70×
- Commonwealth v. SextonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 64×
- Commonwealth v. BensonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-25· cited 62×
- Commonwealth v. MinnisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-18· cited 53×
- Commonwealth v. AllenSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-08· cited 49×
- Commonwealth v. DuffySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 46×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-18· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. WhiteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 29×
- Commonwealth v. WoodsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-11· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-07-30· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. SorrellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-09· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. WilcoxSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. AaronSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 16×
- Commonwealth v. DavisSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-29· cited 10×
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