Commonwealth v. Jorgenson

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, striking a victim twice in the face causes substantial pain for purpose of bodily injury
• finding that the evidence was sufficient to sustain a Simple Assault conviction where the assailant struck the victim twice across the face, as “[a] jury may infer that striking a person across the face causes pain.”
• affirming conviction for simple assault where victim was struck twice across the face while refusing sexual advances
• affirming conviction for simple assault where victim was struck twice across the face while refusing sexual advances
• affirming conviction for simple assault where victim was struck twice across the face while refusing sexual advances
• affirming conviction for simple assault where victim was struck twice across the face while refusing sexual advances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Marti
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-06-29· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-20· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Richardson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-08· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Ogin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-11· cited 56×
• In the Interest of M.H.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Kirkwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-01-23· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Davison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-01-18· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-20· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Tullius
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-19· cited 5×
• In Re MH
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-24· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Byers
  Venango County Court of Common Pleas· 1999-12-16

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Silver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-09-28· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Majorana
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-23· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Veneri
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-19· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Strube
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-28· cited 30×