Commonwealth v. Dessus

How courts have described this case

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

• “A defendant is entitled to a charge on a lesser crime only if the evidence warrants it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-02· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-28· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Gore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-29· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Cain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 71×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Ronald James Dessus v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1971-11-29· cited 65×
• Cody v. S.K.F. Industries, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-05-25· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Richardson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Barnes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-18· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Wall
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-20· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Melnyczenko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-02-02· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Dugan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-28· cited 24×
• United States Ex Rel. Dessus v. Commonwealth of Pa.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1970-06-29· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Franklin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-09-23· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Foster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-16· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Showalter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-06· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Rhoades
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-12· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Parks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-08-15· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Ransom
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-04-22· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Garris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-27· cited 5×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Gilbert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,797×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Billie Sol Estes v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1964-09-21· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-05-08· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Dessus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-11-15· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Jordan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-05-22· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-06-06· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-08-06· cited 58×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cummins v. Price
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-04-19· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Sushinskie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1913-11-07· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Capps
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-05-23· cited 25×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Wall v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1942-11-25· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Friday
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-08-07· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-11-16· cited 12×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Rouzer v. Claudy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-04-12· cited 5×