Commonwealth v. Collins

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “Comer allows us to look at the elements as charged in the circumstances of the case”
• emphasizing that \the legislature crafted the statutory elements of the two offenses as mutually exclusive\
• holding Homicide by Vehicle and Homicide by Vehicle-DUI do not merge for sentencing purposes
• holding Homicide by Vehicle and Homicide by Vehicle-DUI do not merge for sentencing purposes
• declining to merge offenses because the mutually exclusive nature of the offenses prevented the same evidence from satisfying the distinct elements of the, two offenses
• homicide by vehicle does not merge with homicide by vehicle/DUI.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
• Commonwealth v. Raven
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-12· cited 541×
• Commonwealth v. Baldwin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 252×
• Robinson Township v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-19· cited 221×
• Commonwealth v. Grays
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-25· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-18· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Davidson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-20· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Drummond
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-25· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-28· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Spruill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-22· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Diehl
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-04-28· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Jenkins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-15· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Gatling
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-01· cited 54×
• Com. v. Talley, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-17· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Northrip
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Kennedy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-02-08· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Chiappini
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-23· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Kitchen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-18· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Coppedge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-11-24· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Samuels
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-28· cited 32×

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Bell v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-09· cited 1,300×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-26· cited 251×
• People v. Lowe
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-04-04· cited 244×
• Phillips v. A-Best Products Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-10-18· cited 218×
• State v. Huertas
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1990-05-09· cited 195×
• State v. Chicano
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-12-25· cited 162×
• People v. Pitsonbarger
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1991-04-01· cited 151×
• Gray v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-01-16· cited 134×
• Martinez Chavez v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-03-01· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Vasquez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-28· cited 113×
• State v. Hurley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-04-11· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Comer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-08-07· cited 101×
• State v. LaTourelle
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-01-20· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Weakland
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-07· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-07· cited 74×
• State v. Sullivan & Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-05-06· cited 72×
• State v. White
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1998-05-08· cited 64×
• State v. Dechaine
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1990-03-15· cited 56×