Commonwealth v. Cross

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the defendant’s clothing and personal effects could properly be seized following a lawful arrest
• finding that the (d)(10) aggravating circumstance, which includes the circumstances of multiple murders, is not “arbitrary and capricious”
• finding that the (d)(10) aggravating circumstance, which includes the circumstances of multiple murders, is not \arbitrary and capricious\
• upholding the “warrant-less seizure of [an arrestee’s] hair samples and [] fingernail clippings and scrapings” as valid incident to arrest because “their seizure was so minor an imposition as to constitute only the slightest intrusion, if indeed such constituted an intrusion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Zettlemoyer v. Fulcomer
  Third Circuit· 1991-01-16· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Baumhammers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-27· cited 187×
• Commonwealth v. Copenhefer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-28· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Fletcher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-11-18· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Holcomb
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-04· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Zook
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-17· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Frey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-03· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson, M., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-26· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Cross
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-05· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Duffey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-14· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Simonson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-12· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Cam Ly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-18· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Cross
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-02-25· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Patterson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-06· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Sweger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-26· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Moser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-14· cited 22×
• Peterkin v. Jeffes
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1987-05-04· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-30· cited 19×
• Zettlemoyer v. Fulcomer
  Third Circuit· 1991-03-20· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Preston v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-23· cited 1,905×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Spaziano v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 1,061×
• United States v. Edwards
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-26· cited 917×
• Roberts v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 802×
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• Commonwealth v. Frey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-13· cited 262×
• Pioneer Finishing Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board
  Supreme Court· 1983-08-23· cited 229×
• Commonwealth v. Travaglia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-29· cited 202×
• United States v. Ralph F. Deleo
  First Circuit· 1970-04-20· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-24· cited 113×