Commonwealth v. Morrissey

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a conviction for receiving stolen property could not stand since the defendant “could not be guilty of receiving stolen property which she never stole”
• “To prove the crime of receiving stolen property, the Commonwealth must establish . . . that the possessor knew, or had reason to know, that the item was stolen.”
• listing the four elements of the crime as: 1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Green
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-09· cited 52×
• Com. v. Goodco Mechanical, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-02-28· cited 20×
• Alexis Barradas Jacome v. Attorney General United States
  Third Circuit· 2022-06-30· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Bartholomew
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-06-19

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ohle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-14· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Scudder
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Peluso
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 38×
• Starkey Construction, Inc. v. Elcon, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1970-06-15· cited 32×
• Byard F. Brogan, Inc. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-01-18· cited 26×
• Walters Et Ux. v. Kamppi
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-11· cited 20×
• Allstate Insurance v. McFadden
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-08-28· cited 20×
• Davish v. Gidley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-07-24· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Van Nest
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-11· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Rosenzweig
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-19· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Turrell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-26· cited 9×