Commonwealth v. Heck

How courts have described this case

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

• Contributory negligence is not a defense to a charge of homicide by vehicle
• while both criminal negligence and recklessness involve “gross” deviations from reasonable conduct, recklessness - 16 - J-E01002-21 includes conscious disregard of risk whereas criminal negligence is accompanied by lack of awareness of risk

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-10-19· cited 160×
• Commonwealth v. Heck
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-28· cited 78×
• Com. v. Arnold, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-10-20· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Nicotra
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-07· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Chilcote
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-20· cited 40×
• State v. Reichert
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1993-05-05· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Long
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-26· cited 34×
• State v. Hazelwood
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1997-10-03· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Uhrinek
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-28· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Molinaro
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-09-24· cited 24×
• State v. Ritchie
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1991-12-12· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Cheatham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-10· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Stock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-16· cited 20×
• Burnett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-09-17· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. DeBlase
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-22· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. CSX Transportation, Inc.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-06· cited 14×
• In the Interest of Hyduke
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-16· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Eichelberger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-23· cited 13×
• State v. Huff
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1990-03-20· cited 12×
• Baumgardner Oil Co. v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-24· cited 12×

Cites

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

• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• Williams v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-06· cited 2,766×
• Smith v. California
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-13· cited 1,258×
• Dennis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-06-04· cited 1,230×
• Lambert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1958-01-27· cited 895×
• United States v. Dotterweich
  Supreme Court· 1943-11-22· cited 851×
• Commonwealth v. Sell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-30· cited 268×
• Commonwealth v. Koczwara
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-25· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Mikulan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-30· cited 166×
• Hi Holdridge, A/K/A Hiram Holdridge, Larry Shumm and Neil Delmar Haworth v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1960-08-31· cited 142×
• Commonwealth v. Root
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-05-02· cited 118×
• Davis v. Dennis B.
  California Supreme Court· 1976-12-28· cited 104×
• People v. Olsen
  California Supreme Court· 1984-08-23· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Lobiondo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-08· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Frisbie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-18· cited 95×
• Speidel v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-10-21· cited 81×
• State v. Guest
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-09-01· cited 80×
• United States v. Moreland
  Supreme Court· 1922-04-17· cited 76×
• People v. Peabody
  California Court of Appeal· 1975-03-13· cited 69×