Commonwealth v. Duncan

How courts have described this case

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

• letter of a statute will not be disregarded under pretext of pursuing unstated legislative intent
• contrary result under Pennsylvania statute, but unresolved constitutional question noted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Black
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-11· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Hassine
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-08· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Wall
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-02-26· cited 51×
• CROSBY BY CROSBY v. Sultz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-19· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Nieves
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-26· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Jorgenson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-20· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Revtai
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-26· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Linder
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-06· cited 21×
• United States v. Albert Nez
  Tenth Circuit· 1981-09-22· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Koch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-02· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Folino
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-18· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Dear
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-03· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Quartman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-31· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Bottchenbaugh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-19· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Majorana
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-16· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Mascitti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-02· cited 8×
• United States v. Ferguson
  U.S. Army Court of Military Review· 1982-10-21· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Boone
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-30· cited 4×
• Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Borough of Hamburg
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 1982-06-24· cited 2×
• In re McMillan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-16· cited 1×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Commonwealth v. Blair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 461×
• Wiegand v. Wiegand
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 274×
• Commonwealth v. Rieck Investment Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-09-29· cited 154×
• State v. Green
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-11-16· cited 74×
• State v. Jalo
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1976-12-27· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Covil
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Ashford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-27· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Strube
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-28· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Warren
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-28· cited 22×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1978-03-17· cited 19×
• City of Pittsburgh v. Royston Service, Inc.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-08-31· cited 16×