Commonwealth v. Sawyer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding testimony from victim, who sustained a cut hand, that Sawyer approached him with a “shiny metal object,” coupled with evidence that a knife was recovered nearby, was sufficient to support inference that Sawyer attacked the victim with the knife

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tyson Alan Ditch v. James L. Grace
  Third Circuit· 2007-03-01· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Rines
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-19· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Fowler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Corbin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-18· cited 5×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Coleman v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,808×
• Commonwealth v. Spencer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-25· cited 134×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-01-19· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Burton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Redshaw
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 13×