Commonwealth v. McCoy

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring merger where violations of subsections of the same statute are designed to proscribe a single harm and the defendant in violating them committed one act
• “merger [of convictions under Sections 3802(a)(1) and (c)] was proper, and appellant’s protections against double jeopardy were not violated”
• “An individual launching a constitutional challenge to a statute must be injured by it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Thur
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-08-04· cited 289×
• Commonwealth v. Lamonda
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-29· cited 241×
• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-20· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Segida
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 185×
• Commonwealth v. Beshore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-01-18· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Mobley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-14· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Colon-Plaza
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-02-25· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Pleger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-09· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Habay
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-10· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Etchison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-01-24· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. McCoy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-21· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Farrow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-27· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-01-23· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Feese
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-09-18· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-14· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Fulton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-09· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-25· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-07-14· cited 18×
• Rawlins v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-03-01· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Harley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-05-25· cited 17×

Cites

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

• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Devenpeck v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 2004-12-13· cited 1,825×
• Witte v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-14· cited 870×
• Commonwealth v. Barud
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-30· cited 175×
• Commonwealth v. Mikulan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-30· cited 166×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-18· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-24· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-28· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Arroyo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-21· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Jarman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-22· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Modaffare
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-22· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Dobbs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-29· cited 47×
• Alexander v. COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-08-15· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. McCurdy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-03· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Atwell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-18· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Pytak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-20· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Etheredge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-03-06· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Dodge
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-05-15· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Tustin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-11-15· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Ciccola
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-02-07· cited 15×