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.

• use of deadly weapon on vital part of body is sufficient to establish specific intent to kill

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-29· cited 642×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-18· cited 593×
• Commonwealth v. Simpson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-26· cited 361×
• Commonwealth v. Small
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-01· cited 320×
• Commonwealth v. Perrin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-05-01· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Rollins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-09-29· cited 208×
• Commonwealth v. Cunningham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-31· cited 169×
• Commonwealth v. Arrington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-28· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Flor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-07-22· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Einhorn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-14· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Poplawski, R., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-29· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Uderra
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-21· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-22· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-20· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-10-02· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-01-19· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Kim
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-11-15· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. duPont
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-20· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Solano
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-27· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-29· cited 59×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-19· cited 271×
• Commonwealth v. LaCava
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-19· cited 252×
• Commonwealth v. O'SEARO
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-21· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Gribble
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-20· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Pounds
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 144×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-02· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-20· cited 134×
• Buchbinder v. Commissioner
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-23· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Christy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-04-05· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Chambers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-20· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-30· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-23· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Marinelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-25· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-15· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Henry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-23· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Browdie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-20· cited 82×