Commonwealth v. McCullum

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “when asserting a diminished capacity defense to first degree murder, a defendant attempts to negate the element of specific intent to kill and, if successful, first degree murder is reduced to third degree murder.”
• “When asserting a diminished capacity defense to first[-]degree murder, a defendant attempts to negate the element of specific intent to kill and, if successful, first[-]degree murder is reduced to third degree murder.”
• expert witness made no mention of appellant’s cognitive functions of deliberation and premeditation at the time of the murder or his ability-or inability-to formulate the specific intent to kill; testimony would not have been admissible at trial to support diminished capacity defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rainey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 308×
• Jacobs v. Horn
  Third Circuit· 2005-01-20· cited 265×
• Commonwealth v. Bracey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-31· cited 246×
• Burstein v. Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-17· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-01· cited 43×
• Lewis v. Erie Insurance Exchange
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-05-30· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-08-28· cited 27×
• Saranchak v. Beard
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2008-01-04· cited 5×
• Stevens v. Horn
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2004-05-26· cited 2×
• Gorby v. Wetzel
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2016-09-28· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• Commonwealth v. Travaglia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-23· cited 541×
• Commonwealth v. LaCava
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-19· cited 252×
• Commonwealth v. Edmiston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-10· cited 196×
• Commonwealth v. Weinstein
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-10-26· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. McCullum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-21· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Legg
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-03· cited 66×