Commonwealth v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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

• finding defendant’s confession admissible to prove conspiracy to commit robbery where Commonwealth independently proved a robbery occurred
• kidnapping, robbery, and homicide arising from one continuous criminal - 14 - J-A29044-25 episode
• “The closely related crimes exception does not require that the crimes share a common element.”
• confession to robbery and conspiracy admissible because they took place during “one - 15 - J-S31024-19 continuing incident” involving murder, the crime for which prosecution established corpus delicti

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bullock
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-31· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Fears
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-20· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Dupre
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-11· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Hernandez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-21· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-01-06· cited 75×
• Miller, Christopher Adrian
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-15· cited 57×
• In the Interest of T.B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-10-26· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Herb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-06-09· cited 46×
• Com. v. Dula, A., III
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-08-20· cited 21×
• Jacobs v. Horn
  Third Circuit· 2005-01-20· cited 1×
• Com. v. Harper, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-03-30· cited 1×
• Com. v. Dewald, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-05-30· cited 1×
• Christopher Adrian Miller v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2015-04-20
• Com. v. Chance, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-10-24
• Miranda, Christopher
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2021-04-21
• Villanova University v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-01-16

Cites

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

• Opper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1954-12-06· cited 1,280×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-21· cited 416×
• Commonwealth v. Ware
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-11-20· cited 143×
• Wilson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-19· cited 88×
• Short v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1999-04-14· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Smallwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-10· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Bardo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-02-27· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Leslie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-03-14· cited 64×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1882-11-20· cited 54×
• Willoughby v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-04-10· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. May
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. McMullen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-31· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Verticelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-29· cited 30×
• United States v. Algylee Bobbe Wilson
  Third Circuit· 1971-01-13· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Tessel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-25· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Steward
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-02-07· cited 23×
• State v. Morgan
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2002-11-19· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Jacobs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-26· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. DiSabatino
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-10-22· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Daniels
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-31· cited 16×