Commonwealth v. Figueroa

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the defendant was guilty of theft by deception for transferring the property of a deceased owner
• finding sufficient evidence that defendant intended \to steal title\ to real property from deceased owners via forged deeds and grading the offense based on the value of the real property
• upholding the grading of defendant’s conviction for theft by deception because the Commonwealth had presented evidence of the value of the stolen property
• finding sufficient -6- J-S63003-18 evidence of the value of the stolen property to grade defendant’s offense of theft by deception as a third degree felony
• finding sufficient evidence that defendant intended “to steal title” to real property from deceased owners via forged deeds and grading the offense based on the value of the real property
• “The weight of the evidence is strictly within the province of the fact finder[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Gentry
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2017-11-29· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Dargan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-31· cited 55×
• First Mendon Associates v. Dumas, 99-2144 (2003)
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2003-04-23
• State of Tennessee v. Tabitha Gentry (AKA ABKA RE BAY)
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2017-11-29
• Commonwealth v. Dargon
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-03-11
• Com. v. Carter, L.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-02-28

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Champney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-24· cited 563×
• Commonwealth v. Lambert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-03-22· cited 273×
• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-07-20· cited 227×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-22· cited 212×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-12· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Genovese
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-18· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Hanes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-09· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Ketterer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-02-17· cited 34×