Commonwealth v. Kirwan

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, “[o]nce it reasonably appears that the witness may be properly privileged not to answer, it is the duty of the objecting party to establish that the privilege does not exist.”
• reasonable jury could conclude that throwing another person to the ground satisfies Section 2709(a)(1) in that there is physical contact with intent to alarm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Emler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-21· cited 115×
• Com. v. Wroten, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-06-17· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Treat
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-02· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Doolin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-27· cited 8×
• Com. v. Molina
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-08-13· cited 1×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Malloy v. Hogan
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 3,675×
• Hoffman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-05-28· cited 1,874×
• Commonwealth v. Champney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-24· cited 563×
• United States v. Mandujano
  Supreme Court· 1976-05-19· cited 525×
• Commonwealth v. Swinehart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-29· cited 80×
• United States v. Lionel Ortiz
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-04-30· cited 75×
• United States v. John A. Thornton
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-05-01· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Kopicz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-19· cited 45×
• United States v. Marlon Louis Johnson, and Bennie Johnson, Timothy Duane Neal, Witness-Appellant
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-01-10· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Bowman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-15· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Tielsch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-11-28· cited 4×