Commonwealth v. Simms

How courts have described this case

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

• insanity defense allowed where defendant, at the time of the crime, was allegedly acting as a result of a blow or blows to the head
• blows to head may result in temporary insanity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cropper
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Reilly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-17· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Ernst
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Moyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Haywood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Plank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-07-13· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Boyer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-12-01· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Dixon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-06-24· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Webb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-28· cited 3×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Demmitt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Winebrenner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-04-28· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Simms
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-06-21· cited 16×