Commonwealth v. Edwards

How courts have described this case

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

• “Where the original assailant becomes the assaulted, it is he who then has a right of self[-] defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mouzon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-21· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Robson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Cropper
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Light
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Rawles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Carbonetto
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Samuel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-08· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Caye
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-11-26· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Walley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Long
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Mahoney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Tiernan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Eberly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-16
• Craig Estate
  Somerset County Court of Common Pleas· 1976-08-25
• Commonwealth v. Mizell
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 1984-12-03
• Commonwealth v. Davenport
  Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas· 1973-01-09

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Zapata
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Wrona
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-18· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Johnston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Commander
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Roundtree
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-10-09· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Lawrence
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-01-03· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Wilkes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-04-21· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Fraser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-01-07· cited 16×