Commonwealth v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a car was used as “deadly weapon” where defendant “continued to drive his vehicle, without hitting the brakes, even after he struck the children on a swing set.”
• determining that defendant’s actions in attempting to make a U-turn, jumping a four-inch-high curb, crashing through a wrought-iron fence, and running into a swing set were sufficient to find that defendant used the vehicle as a deadly weapon
• car qualified as deadly weapon where it jumped curb, struck children on a playground swing set, and continued travel with children on the hood

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Buterbaugh
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-13· cited 510×
• Commonwealth v. Dunphy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-06· cited 357×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-09· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Petroll
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-06-18· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Packard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-01-24· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-08-14· cited 22×
• Com. v. Peters, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-08-07
• Com. v. Bartlett, P.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-04-16

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Drum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1868-07-01· cited 323×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-18· cited 163×
• Commonwealth v. O'Hanlon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-20· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Tate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. McCullum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-21· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Commander
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-01-09· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Pigg
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-07· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Bowser
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-14· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Scales
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-13· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Urbanski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-08· cited 31×
• Goodman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Battiato
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-21· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-16· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Hoke
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-01-12· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Forest
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-19· cited 7×