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.

• malice exists “where there is wickedness of disposition, hardness of heart, cruelty, recklessness of consequences, and a mind regardless of social duty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cruz-Centeno
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-04· cited 332×
• Commonwealth v. LaCava
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-19· cited 252×
• Commonwealth v. Packer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-22· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Zimmick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-23· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-20· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Geiger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-02-26· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Fox
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-01-14· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-29· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Crockford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-08· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Wagaman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-21· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. MacArthur
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-09· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Cheatham
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-10· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-05-25· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Tapper
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-29· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Barnhart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-30· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Banellis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-30· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Yaninas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-10· cited 7×
• Hayman v. Pennsylvania
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2009-02-09· cited 1×
• Com. v. Frye, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-07-15
• Commonwealth v. Peters, K., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-05-04

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Drum
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1868-07-01· cited 323×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Hinchcliffe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Bricker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-21· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Buzard
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-11-13· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Dorazio
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-06-26· cited 54×
• Peterson v. Puerto Rico
  Supreme Court· 1978-11-27· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Reilly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-17· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-03-20· cited 12×