Commonwealth v. McFadden

How courts have described this case

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

• “To aid or abet in the commission of a crime; one must be an active partner in the intent to commit it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Farquharson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 388×
• Commonwealth v. Roscioli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 137×
• Commonwealth v. Swerdlow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-04· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Pronkoskie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-26· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Causey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-18· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Pronkoskie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 94×
• Jahnke v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1984-12-12· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Stanley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Cox
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 70×
• Bouwkamp v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1992-06-02· cited 67×
• Marks v. Bell Tel. Co. of Penn.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Manchas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-28· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Fields
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Brady
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-21· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Bradley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Henderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-03· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Christian
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Rosario
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-30· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Gladden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-26· cited 38×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Coyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-10-14· cited 166×
• Commonwealth v. Simpson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Bartlett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. JACKSON
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-07-17· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Grays
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-01-03· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-03-20· cited 2×