Commonwealth v. Harper

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “for double jeopardy purposes, the underlying felony in a felony-murder prosecution is the ‘same offense’ as the murder; therefore, sentences for both the murder and the underlying felony are prohibited.”
• applicability of double jeopardy principles does not affect the reliability of the truth determining process and thus weighs against retroactive application
• “for double jeopardy purposes, the underlying felony in a felony-murder prosecution is the “same offense” as the murder; therefore, sentences for both the murder and the underlying felony are prohibited”
• common law and selective approach followed
• Concurring Opinion by Papadakos, J.
• Concurring Opinion by Papadakos, J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Melilli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-13· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Tizer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-10· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-20· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Wade
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-18· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Kimmel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-10-29· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-24· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Yates
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-14· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Melilli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 17×
• Jackson v. State
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1996-09-27· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Metts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-06· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Carr
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-31· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Flis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-21· cited 9×
• Box v. Petsock
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1987-11-16· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-30· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-16· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,075×
• Johnson v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 3,002×
• Linkletter v. Walker
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 2,898×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Whalen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-16· cited 1,789×
• Albernaz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-09· cited 1,588×
• Desist v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-26· cited 1,237×
• Illinois v. Vitale
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-19· cited 1,215×
• Ohio v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-02· cited 1,064×
• United States v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-21· cited 1,037×
• Roberts v. Russell
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-14· cited 668×
• Nielsen
  Supreme Court· 1889-05-13· cited 642×
• Harris v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 618×
• Commonwealth v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-09· cited 417×
• People v. Robideau
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 408×
• Robinson v. Neil
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-26· cited 374×