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.

• concluding that shouting “fuck the police” during a funeral procession for a sheriff’s deputy was not obscene language under Section 5503(a)(3
• stating that appellant’s chant of “fuck the police” during an officer’s funeral procession was not obscene under section 5503(a)(3) because it was not “intended to appeal to anyone’s prurient interest[,] nor did it describe, in a patently offensive way[,] sexual conduct.”
• discharging conviction where McCoy repeatedly shouted, “Fuck the police,” while observing a funeral procession honoring an officer killed in the line of duty
• conspiracy may be inferred where it is demonstrated that relation, conduct, or circumstances of parties, and overt acts of co-conspirators sufficiently prove formation of criminal confederation
• the defendant shouted “fuck the police” multiple times during a funeral procession for a fallen officer; the Superior Court held that the evidence was insufficient to support the defendant’s disorderly conduct conviction under Section 5503(a)(3

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Pennix
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-12· cited 15×
• Com. v. Brensinger, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-08-30· cited 1×
• Com. v. Smith, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-07-23· cited 1×
• Com. v. Johnson, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-11-13· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Miller v. California
  Supreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 3,038×
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1942-03-09· cited 2,706×
• Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 1,862×
• Cohen v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 1,777×
• Cox v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,449×
• Watson v. City of Memphis
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-27· cited 280×
• Commonwealth v. Lutes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-02-27· cited 275×
• Commonwealth v. Reynolds
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-27· cited 255×
• Commonwealth v. Davidson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-20· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-23· cited 140×
• Commonwealth v. Wayne
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-29· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Hock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-05-03· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Swerdlow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-04· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Mastrangelo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-28· cited 112×
• Martin v. Capital Cities Media, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-06-12· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-03-25· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-17· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Fedorek
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-04-30· cited 74×
• Zamecnik v. Indian Prairie School Dist. No. 204
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-03-01· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Sattazahn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-30· cited 53×