Commonwealth v. Fortune

How courts have described this case

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

• holding felony murder and predicate offense merge for sentencing purposes
• merger of rape and second degree murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 57×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-03-05· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Bogden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-05· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Ruffin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-22· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Hartz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-09-01· cited 35×
• People v. Fernandez
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1986-12-29· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Broadie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-01· cited 33×
• State v. Borner
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2013-08-29· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-23· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Darden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-11· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Vazquez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-25· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Bossche
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Watts
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-23· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Woodbury
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-08· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Johnston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-05-07· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Sayko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-20· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Ruth
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-21· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-25· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-03· cited 11×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Whalen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-16· cited 1,789×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• United States v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-25· cited 1,334×
• Illinois v. Vitale
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-19· cited 1,215×
• Commonwealth v. Holzer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-27· cited 195×
• Commonwealth v. Tarver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-04· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Rife
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Boerner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-03· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Rough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-13· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Eberts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-11-26· cited 47×
• Johnson Appeal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Belgrave
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Irvin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-08· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Alston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Hornberger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-09-13· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Moskorison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-01-17· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-02-27· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Stiefel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-16· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Hayden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-06-14· cited 11×