Commonwealth v. Cavanaugh

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that although the defendant possessed an intent to inflict serious bodily injury, such injury did not exist where the defendant struck the victim’s head with a tire iron, causing lacerations requiring nine stitches
• finding that a tire iron is not an instrument of crime in an assault case
• Court affirmed separate convictions for aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and terroristic threats arising out of single attack on victim with tire iron; held, however, that separate sentence for simple assault merged
• Court affirmed separate convictions for aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and terroristic threats arising out of single attack on victim with tire iron; held, however, that separate sentence for simple assault merged
• defendant’s action in striking victim on the head with a tire iron sufficient to support REAP conviction
• a tire iron is not an instrument of crime in an assault case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-30· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-07-19· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Laing
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-04· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Calhoun
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-07-09· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Rightley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-15· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Duden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-16· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Caterino
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-05-31· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Whetstine
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-07-26· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Boettcher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-15· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-06-05· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-11· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Ferrari
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-21· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Artis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-08· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Channell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-16· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Aycock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-16· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Mosley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-25· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-31· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Vida
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-30· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Berrena
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-16· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Meekins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-07· cited 6×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 198×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1941-09-29· cited 179×
• Commonwealth v. Lockhart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-16· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-12-01· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-14· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Belgrave
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. McCUSKER
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-01-03· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Morgan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 4×