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.

• holding that a state police vehicle, temporarily parked in the passing lane of an interstate highway while the officer inside the vehicle investigated an accident, was not in operation at the time another vehicle struck a person obtaining flares from the police vehicle's trunk
• holding that a state police vehicle, temporarily parked in the passing lane of an interstate highway while the officer inside the vehicle investigated an accident, was not in operation at the time another vehicle struck a person obtaining flares from the police vehicle’s trunk
• observing that, even if the placement of the vehicle may have a causal relationship to the injury, the motor vehicle exception does not apply unless the vehicle is actually in motion at the time of the injury
• observing that, even if the placement of the vehicle may have a causal relationship to the injury, the motor vehicle exception does not apply unless the vehicle is actually in motion at the time of the injury
• state police car, which was temporarily parked in the passing lane of a highway by a state trooper investigating an accident was held not to be in operation
• injuries caused by collision with third party when trying to retrieve flares from parked state vehicle not caused by operation of state-owned vehicle; sovereign immunity exception does not apply

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Balentine v. Aplt. v. Chester Water Auth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-08-21· cited 41×
• Sonnenberg v. Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-08· cited 40×
• Vogel v. Langer
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-02-14· cited 34×
• First Nat. Bank v. Dept. of Transp.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-05-21· cited 26×
• City of Philadelphia v. Melendez
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-15· cited 16×
• Cacchione v. Wieczorek
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-11· cited 13×
• North Sewickley Township v. LaValle
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-11-02· cited 12×
• Beitler v. City of Philadelphia
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-09-02· cited 9×
• Swartz v. Hilltown Township Volunteer Fire Co.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-16· cited 7×
• Evans v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-07-22· cited 7×
• White ex rel. Pearsall v. School District of Philadelphia
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-12-06· cited 2×
• Merz v. City of Philadelphia
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-29· cited 1×
• H. Podejko v. DOT v. H.M. Kastler, of The Estate of J.G. Bunnell
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-27
• First National Bank v. PennDOT
  Erie County Court Common Pleas· 1991-05-31
• Johnson v. Pennsylvania State Police
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 1995-01-03
• Wieczorek v. Cacchione
  Erie County Court Common Pleas· 1995-05-11
• Gray v. Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority
  Erie County Court Common Pleas· 1989-07-20
• Sonnenberg v. Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority
  Erie County Court Common Pleas· 1990-02-08

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Love v. City of Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-01· cited 153×
• Commonwealth v. Dumas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-14· cited 17×
• Kraiser v. Horsham Township
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-10· cited 16×