Commonwealth v. Hart

How courts have described this case

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

• whether a defendant acted under “heat of passion” or “unreasonable belief’ is implicit in the question of whether the malice element necessary for a murder conviction has been established
• “[A]s a general rule, a progression charge is proper where the defendant is charged with different forms or degrees of the same crime.”
• \we find that a improper\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 593×
• Berry v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-19· cited 255×
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-18· cited 200×
• State v. LeBlanc
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1996-09-05· cited 110×
• State v. Sawyer
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-08-31· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. duPont
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-20· cited 65×
• State v. Labanowski
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-09-19· cited 63×
• State v. Jones
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1994-05-06· cited 63×
• State v. Tate
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2001-05-22· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Sneeringer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-29· cited 30×
• State v. Daulton
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-06-28· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Hallman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-29· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Pope
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-10· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Loach
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-31· cited 12×
• State v. Lewis
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2018-11-01· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-05· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Hernandez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-02-24· cited 3×
• Com. v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 3×
• Bowser v. Bowser
  Crawford County Court of Common Pleas· 1993-03-05

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Frey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-13· cited 262×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 191×
• Commonwealth v. Lawson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-17· cited 180×
• Cox v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-29· cited 180×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-05-02· cited 148×
• United States v. Andrew Tsanas
  Second Circuit· 1978-04-24· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-22· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Covil
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Watlington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 63×
• Rogers v. Lea County
  Supreme Court· 1974-11-11· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Grove
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-18· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Manning
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Toledo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-21· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-17· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Gabrielson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-13· cited 28×
• Maurice B. Pharr v. Thomas R. Israel, Warden, Defendant-Respondent
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-09-23· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-01· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-30· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-05· cited 22×