Commonwealth v. Henley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Section 901(b) of the Crimes Code, 18 Pa.C.S. § 901(b), abrogates the defense of legal impossibility for all crimes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ohle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-14· cited 157×
• Butler v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1984-07-23· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Henley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-24· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Stafford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-20· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Ward
  Somerset County Court of Common Pleas· 1983-10-31
• Com. v. Aguilar, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-06-10

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Philip Berrigan, in No. 72-1938, and Elizabeth McAlister Appeal of Elizabeth McAlister In
  Third Circuit· 1973-06-27· cited 294×
• Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board v. State College Area School District
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-04-17· cited 219×
• United States v. Martin Molina Oviedo, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-01-12· cited 146×
• People v. Rojas
  California Supreme Court· 1961-01-27· cited 115×
• People v. . Gardner
  New York Court of Appeals· 1894-12-11· cited 104×
• People v. Jaffe
  New York Court of Appeals· 1906-04-15· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Barone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-25· cited 40×
• People v. Leichtweis
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1977-11-21· cited 32×
• People v. Jelke
  New York Court of Appeals· 1956-05-31· cited 28×
• People v. Rolling
  New York Supreme Court· 1962-11-05· cited 26×
• United States v. Hair
  District of Columbia· 1973-03-28· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Dennis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-15· cited 12×
• Faustina v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1959-10-29· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Gore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-29· cited 8×
• People v. Jaffe
  New York Court of Appeals· 1906-10-26· cited 1×