Commonwealth v. Dowling

How courts have described this case

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• two days elapsed between defendant’s trial for victim’s robbery and attempted rape and victim’s murder
• “Sandra Eller positively identified [Dowling] as the person who almost struck her with his car as he was leaving the shopping center in which Ms. Myers’ art gallery was located.”
• defendant’s prior attempted rape and robbery convictions against victim were relevant at his subsequent murder trial because it was probative of his motive to murder victim and prevent her from testifying in the earlier proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ali
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-12-29· cited 675×
• Commonwealth v. Hutchinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-22· cited 298×
• Commonwealth v. Cousar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-21· cited 274×
• Commonwealth v. Porter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-19· cited 177×
• Com. v. T.J.W., Jr. Appeal of: C.W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-24
• Commonwealth v. Thomas, L., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-08-20
• Commonwealth v. Kane
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 2008-10-29
• Com. v. Baggetta, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-08-09
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Dowling, K.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-05-31

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lord
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-28· cited 1,456×
• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 307×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-20· cited 227×
• Commonwealth v. Reid
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-09-30· cited 173×
• Rosche v. McCoy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-25· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Counterman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-26· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Brewer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-02· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-06-19· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-12· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-15· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Tedford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-13· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Schwartz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-22· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Short
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-13· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Hart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-27· cited 23×