Commonwealth v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that under the Crimes Code, conspiracy and the completed substantive offense are separate crimes
• holding that criminal conspiracy does not merge into the underlying substantive offense or offenses
• holding that criminal conspiracy does not merge into the underlying substantive offense or offenses
• stating “statutes are not presumed to make changes in the rules and principles of the common law or prior existing law beyond what is expressly declared in their provisions.”
• stating \statutes are not presumed to make changes in the rules and principles of the common law or prior existing law beyond what is expressly declared in their provisions.\
• explaining separate harms done by conspiracy to commit offense and the completed offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-06-28· cited 161×
• Commonwealth v. Rios
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-30· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-23· cited 140×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-16· cited 135×
• Schwartz v. Rockey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-17· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Frisbie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-18· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-07-19· cited 85×
• Tubner v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-11-05· cited 77×
• Excavation Technologies, Inc. v. Columbia Gas Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-28· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Chambers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-18· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Boerner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-03· cited 65×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Kingston, S.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-08-15· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Benson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-25· cited 62×
• Tool Sales & Service Co. v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-12-30· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Reynolds
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 59×
• Garcia v. Community Legal Services Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-04-28· cited 56×
• Carrozza v. Greenbaum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-20· cited 50×
• Krivijanski v. Union Railroad
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-09-26· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Potts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-29· cited 50×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Iannelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1975-03-25· cited 1,423×
• United States v. Feola
  Supreme Court· 1975-03-19· cited 856×
• Callanan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-02-20· cited 584×
• Rahn v. Hess
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-06-28· cited 71×
• Glass v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-02-20· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-04-22· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Dunie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-01-20· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Corcoran
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1922-03-03· cited 9×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Perry v. Day
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-04-11· cited 7×