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 specific intent to kill, as well as malice, can be inferred from the use of a deadly weapon upon a vital part of the victim’s body.
• stating that a prosecutor’s claim that a defense attorney was attempting to “shoot the messenger” in a case involving the killing of a witness was not prejudicial to the defendant as to render the jury incapable of delivering a fair verdict

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Elliott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-21· cited 165×
• Commonwealth v. Burno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-16· cited 108×
• Com. v. Knox, L.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-12· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Golphin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-08· cited 59×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-03-29· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-09-26

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
• People v. Green
  California Supreme Court· 1980-04-24· cited 1,166×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 478×
• Commonwealth v. Briggs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-19· cited 417×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-12-21· cited 416×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-22· cited 339×
• Commonwealth v. Tedford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-19· cited 325×
• Commonwealth v. Hutchinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-22· cited 298×
• Commonwealth v. Chamberlain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-14· cited 270×
• Commonwealth v. Houser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-29· cited 242×
• Commonwealth v. Carson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-27· cited 237×
• People v. Staten
  California Supreme Court· 2000-11-09· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-30· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Hanford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-26· cited 83×
• State v. Sorensen
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1969-06-13· cited 37×
• State v. Jennings
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1989-08-01· cited 26×
• State v. Timmons
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1986-05-20· cited 25×
• Smith v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2003-12-09· cited 24×
• People v. Williams
  California Court of Appeal· 1997-06-04· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Oeun Lam
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-19· cited 16×