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.

• “An affirmative defense is one where the defendant admits his commission of the act charged, but seeks to justify or excuse.”
• reviewing conviction of former employee for trespass upon company property
• although the defendant was asked to leave multiple times by both the company’s representative and by local police, and refused, his conviction of defiant trespass could not stand where he was present at the gate for the explicit purpose for which the area was open to the public

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Radich v. Goode
  Third Circuit· 1989-10-06· cited 155×
• Com. v. Bradley, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-05-05· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Blauser
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-28· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Melvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-09-19· cited 19×
• State v. Stanko
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2019-12-20· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Giddings
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-12· cited 9×
• Com. v. Powanda, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-11-09· cited 8×
• United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 72 v. Borough of Dunmore
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1999-01-07· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Cleland
  Carbon County Court of Common Pleas· 2004-04-29
• Commonwealth v. Herlihy
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 1987-04-15

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-07-01· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Tate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-14· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Cartagena
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-07· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Speller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-11· cited 29×