Commonwealth v. Coleman

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court not required to charge upon law having no relation to evidence presented at trial
• trial court not required to charge upon law having no relation to evidence presented at trial
• trial court must charge on lesser included offense only if there is some disputed evidence concerning element of greater charge or if disputed evidence is capable of more than one rational inference
• wherein evidence that the victim got out of his car, charged the defendant and a fight ensued, but there was no clear evidence of who threw the first punch supported inference that fight was entered into by mutual consent.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Kyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-20· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Westcott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-19· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Manchas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-28· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Shamsud-Din
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-05-24· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Cannon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-18· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-24· cited 24×
• Bowalick v. Commonwealth, Department of Education
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-01-08· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Novak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-09-28· cited 4×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wilds
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-29· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-12-11· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Channell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-16· cited 17×