Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 6/30/1972
Commonwealth v. Palmer
Citations
- 448 Pa. 282
- 292 A.2d 921
- 1972 Pa. LEXIS 458
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- stating in a case where the killing was accomplished by shooting the victim in the back of the head that “Malice is properly implied when a deadly weapon is directed to a vital part of the body.”
- “Malice is properly implied when a deadly weapon is directed to a vital part of the body.”
- “Malice is properly implied when a deadly weapon is directed to a vital part of the body”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Jones, Ea-Gen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino
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25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. SherwoodSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-11-06· cited 442×
- Commonwealth v. Cruz-CentenoSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-04· cited 332×
- Commonwealth v. O'SEAROSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 219×
- Commonwealth v. PaquetteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 208×
- Commonwealth v. TarverSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-04· cited 148×
- Commonwealth v. PolimeniSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 110×
- Commonwealth v. MurraySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 108×
- Commonwealth v. DuncanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 92×
- Murphy v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-08-30· cited 51×
- Commonwealth v. MooreSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 43×
- Commonwealth v. MaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 40×
- Commonwealth v. WEEDENSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. ReillySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-17· cited 38×
- Commonwealth v. AustinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-27· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. RobertsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 29×
- Commonwealth v. NauSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 23×
- Commonwealth v. RootsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 22×
- Commonwealth v. HermanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-06-12· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. DiSabatinoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-22· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. MoyerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-25· cited 11×
Cites
7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. GockleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-07-02· cited 132×
- Commonwealth v. BurnsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-01-21· cited 111×
- Commonwealth v. HornbergerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-10-09· cited 104×
- Commonwealth v. WinebrennerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-04-28· cited 81×
- Commonwealth v. GooslinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-03-19· cited 37×
- Commonwealth v. ButtsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-11-12· cited 16×
- Commonwealth v. MeehanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-13· cited 10×
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