Commonwealth v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “placing a knotted cord around the neck of an elderly woman and so rigging it as to strangle are consistent with” specific intent
• “The admitted acts of placing a knotted cord around the neck of an elderly woman and so rigging it as to strangle are consistent” with the specific intent to take the life of another human being and thus support a first-degree murder conviction.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-19· cited 271×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-24· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Pruitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-23· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Markowitz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-29· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Keaton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-12· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Harvey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-27· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Anders
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-07· cited 1×