Commonwealth v. Hobson

How courts have described this case

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

• “A jury may properly infer an intent to kill from the use of a deadly weapon on a vital part of the victim’s body.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wyatt v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-07-27· cited 733×
• Commonwealth v. Dale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-06· cited 165×
• Commonwealth v. Robertson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-26· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Packard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-01-24· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-14· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-15· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Ervin
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2002-02-05

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Devers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-27· cited 872×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-21· cited 213×
• Commonwealth v. Pronkoskie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-26· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Holcomb
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-04· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Terry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-17· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Losch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-14· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Weinstein
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-26· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Lawrence
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-01-03· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. White
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-24· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. House
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-10· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Meo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-01· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Sweger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-26· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Ousley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-18· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Kersten
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-21· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Cross
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-12-11· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Billett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-13· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-28· cited 19×