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.

• explaining that the two elements of the offense of attempt required by the crimes code are “that the actor intend to commit an offense; and . . . that the actor take a substantial step toward completion of the offense”
• accused may be convicted of receiving stolen property even though property is not actually stolen
• receiver is guilty of attempt if goods are not stolen property
• receiver is guilty of attempt if goods are not stolen property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Thousand
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2001-07-27· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-12-30· cited 44×
• United States v. Ali Abdulatif Karaouni, AKA Ali Abdelatif Karaouni
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-08-24· cited 38×
• State v. Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-07-07· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Adamo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-10· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Stafford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-20· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. McClintock
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-07· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Schaeffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-25· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Stafford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-04· cited 1×
• State v. DiNorscia
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1986-04-24
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-08-30

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Rojas
  California Supreme Court· 1961-01-27· cited 115×
• People v. Jaffe
  New York Court of Appeals· 1906-04-15· cited 88×
• State v. MORETTI
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1968-06-28· cited 61×
• United States v. Harry Conway
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-04-02· cited 55×
• Darnell v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1976-12-21· cited 28×
• People v. Rolling
  New York Supreme Court· 1962-11-05· cited 26×
• Darr v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1977-08-15· cited 13×
• State v. Logan & Cromwell
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-01-14· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Henley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-27· cited 9×
• State v. Bird
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1979-11-02· cited 8×