Commonwealth v. Butler

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the defendant offered an alibi defense at trial rather than claiming self- defense
• explaining that where an appellant did not raise the issue of self-defense at trial, the Commonwealth had no burden to disprove it, and appellant may not raise it for the first time on appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Commonwealth v. Gaskins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-08· cited 117×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Clair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 732×
• Commonwealth v. Kloiber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-06-28· cited 530×
• Commonwealth v. Ragan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-29· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-13· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Westcott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-19· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. McKendrick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-08-18· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-24· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Pate
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-03· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Frederick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-04· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Eddowes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-13· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-22· cited 22×