Commonwealth v. Downing

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Temple is a private institution despite its designation as part of the Commonwealth system of higher education
• actor guilty of defiant trespass where he was asked repeatedly to leave law library by professor and campus security
• non-student convicted of defiant trespass for refusing to leave a law school library
• non-student convicted of defiant trespass for refusing to leave a law school library

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Radich v. Goode
  Third Circuit· 1989-10-06· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Hagan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-15· cited 56×
• Untracht v. Fikri
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2006-08-30· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-19· cited 8×
• United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 72 v. Borough of Dunmore
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1999-01-07· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Gilles
  Indiana County Court of Common Pleas· 2002-12-27
• Com. v. Bettis, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-10-28