Commonwealth v. Cockfield

How courts have described this case

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

• arson murder; defendant had quarreled with and threatened decedent; search of defendant’s car disclosed gasoline and charred toilet paper
• arson murder; defendant had quarreled with and threatened decedent; search of defendant's car disclosed gasoline and charred toilet paper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Matos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-26· cited 208×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Aljoe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-01-04· cited 73×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Wilson v. Rundle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-10-09· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Cockfield
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-10-03· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-16· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Negri
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-03-17· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Deren
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-09-15· cited 37×
• United States ex rel. Campbell v. Rundle
  Third Circuit· 1964-01-27· cited 32×
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Cavell
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1965-06-30· cited 18×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Whiting v. Rundle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-03-17· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Nicholls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-03-24· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Tate
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-28· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Querubin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-12-14· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Phillips
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-22· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-11-17· cited 4×
• Peters v. Dillon
  D. Colorado· 1964-01-03· cited 4×
• United States ex rel. Chambers v. Maroney
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1968-03-06· cited 3×
• United States v. Rundle
  Third Circuit· 1964-01-27· cited 2×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-03-28· cited 4,796×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• United States v. Rabinowitz
  Supreme Court· 1950-02-20· cited 2,080×
• Henry v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-11-23· cited 1,968×
• Agnello v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-10-12· cited 1,597×
• Wolf v. Colorado
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-27· cited 1,554×
• Chapman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-04-03· cited 891×
• Trupiano v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-06-14· cited 611×
• Commonwealth v. Bosurgi
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-16· cited 463×
• State v. Brooks
  Washington Supreme Court· 1960-12-22· cited 53×
• Richard Donald Costello v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1962-01-10· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Czajkowski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-14· cited 15×