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.

• defendant facing freshly jimmied door with screwdriver still wedged tight and brother facing opposite way, both walk away upon sight of police—held insufficient
• evidence of attempted burglary insufficient, where there was no direct evidence that the police saw appellant touch the door, use the screwdriver, or perform any motions indicating usage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-31· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Paschall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-21· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Otto
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-21· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Beauford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-20· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-22· cited 7×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Stanley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Goodman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Eddington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Dionisio
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-07-21· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Corbin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-02· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. McCoy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-03-23· cited 10×