Commonwealth v. Chapman, L., Aplt.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a defendant’s refusal to submit to a warrantless blood test for DNA purposes was inadmissible to demonstrate consciousness of guilt
• holding that lies to police during an investigation demonstrates consciousness of guilt
• stating that a defendant’s refusal to submit to a warrantless DNA test is inadmissible to show consciousness of guilt
• defendant’s lies to police during their investigation evidenced his consciousness of his guilt
• defendant’s lies to police during their investigation evidenced his consciousness of his guilt
• defendant’s lies to police during their investigation evidenced his consciousness of his guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. Cosby Jr., W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-12-10· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Bell, T., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-07-17· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Smyrnes, R., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-02-22· cited 21×
• Com. v. Mendoza, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-12-16· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Hairston, K., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-29

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schmerber v. California
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 6,067×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• United States v. Runyan
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-04-18· cited 192×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-22· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Brion
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-30· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-23· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Luv
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-22· cited 102×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-07-31· cited 68×
• Bargas v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-09-27· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-18· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Gibson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-06-26· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Welch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-01-23· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Tillery
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-30· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-26· cited 8×
• United States v. Ashburn
  E.D. New York· 2014-12-30· cited 6×
• Zaborowski v. Pennsylvania State Police
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-02-09· cited 2×