Commonwealth v. James

How courts have described this case

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

• reasonable belief standard in seE-defense must be founded on facts as they appear at the time of the imminent peril

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Commonwealth v. Petrakovich
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-12-05· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Amos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-04-12· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Toney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-07-02· cited 49×
• State v. Toppi
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-04-02· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Lawson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-28· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-09-23· cited 19×
• Nash v. United States
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1994-09-28· cited 1×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Drum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1868-07-01· cited 323×
• Commonwealth v. Heller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-03-24· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Collazo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-05-21· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Vassar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-05-26· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-27· cited 12×