Commonwealth v. Sinnott

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “[e]vidence existed that appellee was motivated by racial animus; he made repeated references to the victim’s national origin (albeit mistaken) while behaving in a physically menacing manner, committing -9- J-A10012-23 an assault on her, which he did not contest.”
• noting that “[h]uman beings may act with a single, exclusive motive[, or] they may act for multiple reasons”
• Finding sufficient evidence for reckless disregard when defendant approached victims with a hammer and electric drill, after a heated argument
• appellant told victim that he would kill her father while shouting obscenities and racial slurs before charging at the victim while wielding a hammer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-19· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. Walter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-18· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Martinez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-12-29· cited 72×
• Com. v. Scarcelli, P.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-11-20· cited 1×
• Com. v. Jackson, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-07-19

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Santiago
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-08-25· cited 1,639×
• Commonwealth v. Ratsamy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-20· cited 275×
• Commonwealth v. Bavusa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-29· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Sinnott
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-06-23· cited 25×
• Marcavage v. Rendell
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-15· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Ferino
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-14· cited 14×
• In re M.J.M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-15· cited 10×
• Marcavage v. Rendell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-23· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Rink
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-02· cited 9×
• People v. Schutter
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2005-04-29· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Ferino
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-28· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Sinnott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-03-23· cited 1×