Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 9/4/1981
Commonwealth v. Gillespie
Citations
- 434 A.2d 781
- 290 Pa. Super. 336
- 1981 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3363
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding opportunity to retreat existed because, “the fight occurred on a public sidewalk, with several avenues of retreat available.”
- holding opportunity to retreat existed because, “the fight occurred on a public sidewalk, with several avenues of retreat available[]”
- rejecting claim of self-defense when defendant used greater force than was reasonably necessary to protect against death or serious bodily injury during fight on public sidewalk by striking victim in head twice with baseball bat and kicking prostrate victim in head
- evidence that defendant beat aggressor-victim after aggressor-victim fell unconscious was sufficient to disprove self-defense and established defendant breached duty to retreat
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Wickersham, McEwen, Wieand
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11 cases in this archive cite this case.
- Commonwealth v. Son TruongSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-13· cited 143×
- Commonwealth v. HolmesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 126×
- Commonwealth v. MartinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-02-03· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. KneppSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-10· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. CorsonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-12· cited 28×
- Commonwealth v. HerbergSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-05· cited 21×
- Commonwealth v. AllenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-08· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. RohachSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-07-05· cited 16×
- Commonwealth v. StarksSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-16· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. GrahamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-28· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-20· cited 7×
Cites
33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. McClendonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-24· cited 771×
- Commonwealth v. RigginsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 471×
- Commonwealth v. ZapataSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 124×
- Commonwealth v. BrunoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 106×
- Commonwealth v. WicksSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-13· cited 93×
- Commonwealth v. CommanderSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 92×
- Commonwealth v. KnightSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-06-05· cited 65×
- Commonwealth v. LawrenceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-01-03· cited 65×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14· cited 53×
- Commonwealth v. WatsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-08· cited 51×
- Commonwealth v. EberleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-21· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. HayesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-04-15· cited 38×
- Commonwealth v. WalleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. BurnsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 35×
- Commonwealth v. O'BrienSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-11-21· cited 33×
- Commonwealth v. LarewSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-17· cited 31×
- Hall v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1975-07-24· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. AndrewsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-24· cited 28×
- Commonwealth v. HelmSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 27×
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