Commonwealth v. Lark

How courts have described this case

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

• holding previous homicide conviction does not become element of murder merely because sentencing enhancement will apply based on previous conviction
• holding previous homicide conviction does not become element of murder merely because sentencing enhancement will apply based on previous conviction
• stating that the statutory language of section 9715 is explicit and should be construed as written
• “The proof of prior conviction is a simple historical fact which may be ascertained through official documents.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-24· cited 420×
• Commonwealth v. Aponte
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-19· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-01· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Marks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-18· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Medley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-27· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Neysmith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-28· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Delligatti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-11· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-05· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Ramos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-06· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Perkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-07· cited 9×

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mathews v. Eldridge
  Supreme Court· 1976-02-24· cited 16,859×
• Santosky v. Kramer
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 9,761×
• Addington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-30· cited 3,004×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Spaziano v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 1,061×
• Gryger v. Burke
  Supreme Court· 1948-10-11· cited 726×
• Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-31· cited 398×
• United States of America, Cross-Appellant v. Gary Bowdach, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-11-28· cited 199×
• Eutsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-04-24· cited 180×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-10· cited 177×
• Talamas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-27· cited 99×
• Snider v. Thornburgh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-29· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Glover
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-25· cited 83×
• Inendino v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-29· cited 81×
• United States v. James T. Schell
  Tenth Circuit· 1982-12-02· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Drew
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-27· cited 64×
• United States v. James Howard Stewart
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-06-07· cited 63×
• United States v. Arthur Edward Williamson
  Fourth Circuit· 1977-12-29· cited 62×
• United States v. Davis, William, A/K/A \Country\ William Davis
  Third Circuit· 1983-08-01· cited 56×
• United States v. Joseph C. Ilacqua
  Sixth Circuit· 1977-11-30· cited 44×