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.

• affirming sufficiency of evidence for simple assault and finding that jury could infer 10-year-old victim endured substantial pain because frustrated 26-year-old defendant was larger and stronger and struck victim in chest with closed fist, which left red mark
• evidence sufficient for simple assault conviction when adult defendant struck child in the chest with a closed fist as punishment for misbehavior

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hunzer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-12· cited 211×
• United States v. Johnson
  Third Circuit· 2009-11-18· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Duck
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-29· cited 17×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-24· cited 420×
• Commonwealth v. Aguado
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-06· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Ogin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-04-11· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Rasheed
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-25· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Jorgenson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-19· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Pantano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-12· cited 15×