Commonwealth v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding evidence of prior crimes was admissible to show a recurring sequence of acts by defendant
• holding evidence of prior crimes was admissible to show a recurring sequence of acts by defendant
• holding evidence of prior crimes was admissible to show a recurring sequence of acts by defendant
• holding evidence of prior crimes was admissible to show a recurring sequence of acts by defendant
• stating that relevant to a finding of common scheme or plan, the court must examine “the habits or patterns of action or conduct undertaken by the perpetrator to commit crime, as well as the time, place, and types of victims typically chosen by the perpetrator”
• \the issue of remoteness under the common plan exception is determined by analyzing the time involved between each of the criminal incidents\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Tyson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-06-10· cited 303×
• Commonwealth v. Lauro
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-27· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Einhorn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-14· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. G.D.M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-06-07· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. O'Brien
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-13· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Luktisch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-25· cited 99×
• Com. v. Saez, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-12-20· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-27· cited 11×
• Com. v. Tyson, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-06-10

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-09· cited 417×
• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-13· cited 237×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-07-02· cited 168×
• Commonwealth v. Claypool
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-26· cited 144×
• Commonwealth v. Frank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-06· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Cohen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-19· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Odum
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-11-02· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Frankenfield
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-11-12· cited 5×