Commonwealth v. Weigle

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “the thrust of the REAP statute is to provide criminal sanctions for the reckless creation of a risk of death or serious bodily injury.”
• holding REAP is not a cognate offense to robbery because it “could be accomplished without committing a robbery, and a robbery could be accomplished without committing [an offense] involving danger to the person.”
• holding that robbery and retail theft are “not of the same class or category of offenses to be considered cognate” because, while the proof of theft was common to both crimes, “[r]obbery bears only a secondary relationship to theft but is principally directed at protection of the person”
• acknowledging that while REAP and robbery are intended to protect part of the same harm, “i.e., protection against infliction of bodily injury or fear thereof[,] the robbery statute contains the additional goal of protection of property which REAP does not

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Weigle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-03-24· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Wyland
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-01-05· cited 15×
• Com. v. Miller, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-01-17
• Commonwealth v. Brice
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-09-21

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-26· cited 251×
• Commonwealth v. Tarver
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-04· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Hetherington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Niemetz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-11-26· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-31· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Prado
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Sims
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-18· cited 79×
• Liciaga v. Court of Common Pleas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-19· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Slingerland
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-09· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-04-23· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. McCurdy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-03· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Crocker
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-02-25· cited 27×
• Maginnis's Case
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1921-02-14· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Jacobs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-20· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Lebron
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-11-29· cited 16×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Tanner v. Ashe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-11-13· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Epps
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-11-03· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-02-27· cited 12×