Commonwealth v. Carson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that evidence was sufficient to sustain defendant passenger’s conviction of theft of automobile when defen dant passenger, or other passenger, and driver all jumped out of car and fled upon being approached by the police.
• “[A] conviction for unauthorized use of a vehicle must be predicated on proof that the defendant operated the vehicle without the owner's consent and that the defendant knew or had reason to know that he lacked the owner's permission to operate the vehicle.”
• “[A] conviction for unauthorized use of a vehicle must be predicated on proof that the defendant operated the vehicle without the owner's consent and that the defendant knew or had reason to know that he lacked the owner's permission to operate the vehicle.”
• “[E]vidence of flight corroborates the inference of guilty knowledge.”
• broken steering column indication that car had been stolen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Davalos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-02· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Bigelow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-07-30· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Grekis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-14· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Marrero
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-15· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Henry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-25· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Mercado
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-01· cited 9×
• In the Int. of: K.G., Appeal of: K.G.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-07-07· cited 5×
• In re Landon G.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-10-30· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Myers
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-10-07

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 213×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-27· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. French
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-11· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Hogan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-10· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Scudder
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Phillips
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 28×
• In the Interest of Scott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-11-02· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Dunlap
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-20· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Brabham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-12· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Marshall
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Grabowski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-22· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Driver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-31· cited 7×