Commonwealth v. Moore

How courts have described this case

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

• no felony murder liability when robbery victim kills bystander while opposing robbery; contrary result “would be carrying the rule of criminal responsibility for the acts of others beyond all reason”
• victim of attempted robbery accidentally killed bystander

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Washington
  California Supreme Court· 1965-05-25· cited 351×
• Commonwealth v. Redline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-01-10· cited 229×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Smith v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-30· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Balliro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-07-02· cited 117×
• People v. Wood
  New York Court of Appeals· 1960-05-19· cited 84×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1982-05-14· cited 80×
• Cassell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-06-01· cited 67×
• People v. Podolski
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1952-03-06· cited 64×
• People v. Hernandez
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-11-16· cited 61×
• State v. Canola
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1977-04-07· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-09-26· cited 44×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1972-07-17· cited 41×
• State v. Garner
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1959-11-09· cited 39×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-12-07· cited 37×
• People v. Austin
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1963-04-05· cited 36×
• People v. Harrison
  California Court of Appeal· 1959-12-17· cited 31×
• Weick v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-07-09· cited 29×
• Alvarez v. District Ct. in & for City & Cty. of Denver
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1974-08-06· cited 28×
• State v. Canola
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1975-06-13· cited 20×
• Comer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-28· cited 18×