Commonwealth v. Santiago

How courts have described this case

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

• invalidating presumption that wife who commits crime in the presence of her husband was coerced
• discarding doctrine of \coverture\ requiring presumption that wife who commits crime in presence of husband was coerced by husband
• invalidating presumption that wife who commits crime in the presence of her husband was coerced
• invalidating presumption that wife who commits crime in the presence of her husband was coerced
• rejecting presumption that wife who commits crime in presence of husband was coerced by husband
• doctrine of “coverture” requiring presumption that wife who commits crimes in husband’s presence was coerced by husband discarded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

46 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Markman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-02-21· cited 189×
• Weaver v. Harpster
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-20· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Kirkland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-07-29· cited 119×
• Fischer v. Department of Public Welfare
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-05· cited 78×
• Sarah Anne Williams Wayne Williams, on Behalf of Their Minor Son, John Williams v. The School District of Bethlehem, Pa
  Third Circuit· 1993-07-30· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Ariondo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-31· cited 53×
• State v. Rouleau
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-06-30· cited 51×
• State v. Wade
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2002-10-23· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Demarco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-23· cited 47×
• Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Insurance Commissioner of Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-27· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-08-17· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Smagala
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-24· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. HILL
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-28· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Rambo
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 29×
• Giffin v. Crane
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-09-08· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Bagley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-02-26· cited 25×
• In Re Estate of Geyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-15· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Sterling
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-06-28· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 20×

Cites

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

• Linkletter v. Walker
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 2,898×
• Conway v. Dana
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-26· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. GOODMAN
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 123×
• Williams v. Carlson
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-14· cited 98×
• Weiner v. Cuyahoga Community College District
  Supreme Court· 1970-01-12· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Pope
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 86×
• United States v. Peter Reuben Ortiz
  Tenth Circuit· 1971-08-02· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. LAWSON
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-21· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Little
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-12· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Simpson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-09-15· cited 64×
• United States v. Robert Gordon Mather
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-12-18· cited 60×
• Lima Lynn Kivette and Dow Kivette v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1956-03-07· cited 58×
• United States v. Charles Larue King
  Tenth Circuit· 1973-11-15· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-03-16· cited 39×
• United States v. Dege
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-27· cited 38×
• United States v. Robert Cerrito
  Seventh Circuit· 1969-09-10· cited 34×
• United States v. Anthony
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1956-09-14· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 19×
• Conyer v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1935-12-03· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-27· cited 9×