Commonwealth v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that fact finder may infer consciousness of guilt from person’s flight or other evasive conduct during police presence
• holding finder of fact may infer a consciousness of guilt from person’s flight or other evasive conduct upon observing police presence
• holding finder of fact may infer a consciousness of guilt from person's flight or other evasive conduct
• no abuse of discretion limiting questions asked by defendant where trial court had permitted multiple questions about homosexual and racial bias and had propounded some itself
• involuntary manslaughter charge unnecessary where evidence overwhelmingly indicated intentional killing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-08-25· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Sattazahn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-30· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Boring
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-23· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Culmer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-18· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-23· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-19· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Holbrook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-09· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Bybel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-11-05· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-08-06· cited 4×
• Jones v. Frank
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1998-11-24
• Commonwealth v. Nation
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-24
• Commonwealth v. Bocelli
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 1994-11-02
• Ritter v. Waynesboro Hospital
  Adams County Court of Common Pleas· 1996-04-09
• Muldrow v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2023-12-06