Commonwealth v. Robinson

How courts have described this case

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

• a simple assault instruction was insufficient because the trial court did not define such legal terms as “attempt,” “intentionally,” “knowingly or recklessly,” and “imminent”
• trial court must define elements of an offense since legal terms are not necessarily understood by laymen without judicial guidance
• trial court must define elements of an offense since legal terms are not necessarily understood by laymen without judicial guidance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-30· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Azim
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-25· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Humpheys
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-24· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-09-10· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Goins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-29· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Knight
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-15· cited 7×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lockhart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-16· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Pavillard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-06-24· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Heatherington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Carrillo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Middleton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-07· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. McMILLION
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-06-12· cited 9×