Commonwealth v. Lyons

How courts have described this case

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

• resisting arrest statute includes disjunctive phrase, therefore statute criminalizes two distinct acts
• affirming a conviction for resisting arrest where defendant fled an attempted arrest by running into a frigid stream, and, once officers caught up to him, kicked and struggled with them, then went limp and had to be carried out to the riverbank to be handcuffed
• defendant kicked and struggled in freezing cold creek with deputy sheriffs requiring two sheriffs to subdue him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Yanoff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-12· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Stevenson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-02-28· cited 134×
• Deanna Jo Shea v. Karla L. Smith, Scott Baker, Robert Rumgay
  Third Circuit· 1992-06-11· cited 73×
• Schemberg v. Smicherko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-11· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Kelley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-17· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-02-13· cited 32×
• Bright v. Westmoreland County
  Third Circuit· 2004-08-24· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Blassingale
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-02· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-09-29· cited 22×
• Bell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-31· cited 20×
• Com. v. Cahill, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-09-10· cited 12×
• In re the Interest of Woodford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-14· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-06-29· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. West
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-28· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Black
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-24· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Montoya
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-11-13· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Bellamy
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 2008-07-03
• Commonwealth v. Ortiz-Claudio
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 2008-12-16
• Commonwealth v. Ostrander
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-05-18