Commonwealth v. Samuels

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, although Section 3732 required only that the death be caused unintentionally, case law held the minimum level of culpability required for conviction of homicide by vehicle is criminal negligence
• stating that a judgment of sentence will be affirmed in spite of an error only where the reviewing court concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the verdict
• stating that a judgment of sentence will be affirmed in spite of an error only where the reviewing court concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the verdict
• Justice Newman concurring and dissenting

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bullock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-27· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. McCrae
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-29· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Packer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-31· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Hart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-09-28· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Hacker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-18· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Reaser
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-29· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Noel, H., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-21· cited 44×
• Shambach v. Bickhart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-26· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Constant
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-05· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Grimes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-01-26· cited 15×
• Kistler v. Commonwealth, State Ethics Commission
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-22· cited 14×
• Com. v. Peralta, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-02-08· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Raban
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-12· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Hurst
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-14· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Huggins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-01-10· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Smith, B., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-21

Cites

36 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• Staples v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-23· cited 1,491×
• Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 419×
• Commonwealth v. Koczwara
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-25· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Mikulan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-30· cited 166×
• Hi Holdridge, A/K/A Hiram Holdridge, Larry Shumm and Neil Delmar Haworth v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1960-08-31· cited 142×
• Commonwealth v. O'Hanlon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-20· cited 115×
• State v. Johnson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2000-12-20· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Heck
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-28· cited 78×
• Mayhugh v. Coon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 77×
• State v. Olmstead
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1990-10-25· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-01-17· cited 76×
• People v. Lardie
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1996-07-09· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Field
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Houtz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-24· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-12-23· cited 45×
• State v. Miller
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1990-03-06· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Barone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-25· cited 40×