Commonwealth v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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

• where judgment was erroneously entered for receiving stolen property and unlawful taking, Superior Court could correct judgments
• “[bjecause these crimes are by their definition inconsistent, ... a judgment of sentence can only be imposed for one or the other____”
• where judgment was incorrectly entered for receiving stolen property and unlawful taking, Superior Court could correct judgments

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. James
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-06-24· cited 236×
• People v. Housby
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-03-31· cited 179×
• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Whiteman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-30· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Madison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-02-09· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Boerner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-03· cited 65×
• Shields v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-27· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Bailey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Harrison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-24· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-20· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Hardick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-24· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-02· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Wilks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Tessel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-25· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-21· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Horton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-11-26· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-09-27· cited 27×
• State v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-05-19· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Caden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-09· cited 24×

Cites

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

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Leary v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Turner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-01-26· cited 1,166×
• Barnes v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 793×
• Commonwealth v. Kloiber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-06-28· cited 530×
• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 213×
• Commonwealth v. Roscioli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 137×
• Commonwealth v. Henderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-04· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. DiFrancesco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-11-12· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-03-25· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Stoffan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-06-21· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. McFarland
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 50×
• 1618 Twenty-First Street Tenants' Ass'n v. Phillips Collection
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2003-07-24· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Wolfe
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-24· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-19· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. PHILLIPS
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-09-11· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Justice
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-09-23· cited 13×
• Vogel v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-24· cited 13×