Commonwealth v. Rainey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that simply trying to escape from officer’s grip did not meet requirements for resisting arrest
• reversing a resisting arrest conviction when the defendant squirmed, wiggled, and twisted, but did not push or kick, to “shake off” a police officer’s grasp

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Soto
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-28· cited 60×
• United States v. Stinson
  Third Circuit· 2010-01-14· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Peters
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-27· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Eberhardt
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-25· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Guerrisi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-26· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Trego
  Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas· 1984-10-12· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Hinzy
  Somerset County Court of Common Pleas· 1981-04-30
• Commonwealth v. Crosby, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-01-22

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Stukes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-10-09· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Meo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 8×