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.

• acknowledging that his alleged pushing of the victim when returning the wallet is irrelevant “since he did not push the victim in an effort to use force to gain control of the victim’s property.”
• finding evidence sufficient to establish conviction of robbery of a motor vehicle despite the absence of proof that the defendant was armed with a weapon
• stating “a purse snatcher … is guilty of robbery as the victim is aware of the force.”
• “force,” as defined for robbery, is “that of which the victim is aware and by reason of that force, is compelled to part with his property” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bedell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-28· cited 215×
• Commonwealth v. Bonner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-17· cited 5×
• Phillips v. DiGuglielmo
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2008-12-30· cited 2×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-15· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-20· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. George
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-13· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-11-07· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Windell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-14· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Lytle
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-02· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. McNair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-22· cited 8×