Commonwealth v. Jackson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that probable cause supported defendant’s arrest where defendant violently resisted police officer’s initial unlawful attempt at arrest by repeatedly punching officer and attempting to take officer’s gun
• upholding resisting arrest conviction where initial attempt to arrest was unlawful, but probable cause arose to arrest defendant for other crimes committed while resisting arrest
• because a lawful arrest is an element of the crime of resisting arrest, the underlying arrest must be lawful
• “A lawful arrest is an element of the crime of resisting arrest . . . . Thus, to be convicted of resisting arrest, the underlying arrest must be lawful.”
• lawful arrest is element of crime of resisting arrest
• lawful arrest is element of crime of resisting arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Franklin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-06-24· cited 237×
• Commonwealth v. Rahman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-06-24· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Taggart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-06-17· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-31· cited 27×
• Ickes v. Grassmeyer
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2014-07-02· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Fayette County Court· 2008-02-01

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-04-21· cited 187×
• Commonwealth v. Matthew
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-22· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Biagini
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-18· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-12· cited 1×