Commonwealth v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that police station is a “detention facility” for the purposes of aggravated harassment by a prisoner
• finding substantial force necessary where arrestee “assumed a fighting stance” and fled when sprayed with pepper spray, requiring pursuing officer to “chase him down traffic lanes”
• finding substantial force necessary where arrestee \assumed a fighting stance\ and fled when sprayed with pepper spray, requiring pursuing officer to \chase him down traffic lanes\
• noting where Clark took an aggressive stance, ran down the road, and the officer had to pepper spray him before he could arrest him was sufficient evidence for resisting arrest
• sustaining the appellant’s conviction for resisting arrest when the evidence demonstrated that the appellant “took a fighting stance, the officer had to pepper spray [him], and then chase him down traffic lanes before apprehending him”
• finding sufficient evidence in support of conviction for resisting arrest where the defendant, upon being informed that he was under arrest, “assumed a fighting stance,” was pepper sprayed, ran from police, slipped and fell, and then continued to resist while on the ground

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-20· cited 154×
• Commonwealth v. Kinney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-03· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Finnecy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-02-18· cited 103×
• Schemberg v. Smicherko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-11· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-16· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-11· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Heater
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-04-18· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-07-28· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Hackenberger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-03-26· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Lippert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-01· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Leonberger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-27· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Kirklin
  Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas· 2002-06-24· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Crosby, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-01-22

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 264×
• Commonwealth v. Valette
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-18· cited 223×
• Commonwealth v. Vetrini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-15· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Seibert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-03-24· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Vesel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-04-27· cited 16×