Commonwealth v. White

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that illustration in charge offered clarity to the jury
• holding that illustration in charge offered clarity to the jury
• holding that illustration in charge offered clarity to the jury
• jury could have found violation of duty to retreat where decedent let defendant get up after fight, defendant retrieved gun from car, and shot decedent
• jury could have found violation of duty to retreat where decedent let defendant get up after fight, defendant retrieved gun from car, and shot decedent
• “Voluntary manslaughter is a killing committed without malice, in the heat of passion or under the unreasonable belief that it was justified.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-24· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Drew
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-27· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-25· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Mehmeti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-08· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Dillon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-31· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Galloway
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-23· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-20· cited 20×
• Valley Forge Historical Society v. Washington Memorial Chapel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-22· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-20· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Clemmons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-11· cited 5×