Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1/8/1963
Commonwealth v. Whiting
Citations
- 409 Pa. 492
- 187 A.2d 563
- 1963 Pa. LEXIS 696
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding hurried exit from crime scene and subsequent false and misleading statements to police indicate consciousness of guilt
- alibi instruction unnecessary where defendant admitted being in proximity to the crime scene at the time in question
- \Alibi is a defense that places the defendant at the relevant time in a different place than the scene involved and so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party.\
- alibi is “a defense that places the defendant at the relevant time in a different place than the scene involved and so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party”
- alibi is \a defense that places the defendant at the relevant time in a different place than the scene involved and so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party\
- “[a]libi is a defense that places the defendant at the relevant time in a different place than the scene involved and so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party”
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Judges: Bell, Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O'Brien, Keim
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49 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. HickmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 161×
- Commonwealth v. LopinsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-26· cited 157×
- Commonwealth v. PoundsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 144×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-11-27· cited 128×
- Commonwealth v. CammSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-05-13· cited 96×
- Commonwealth v. ArchambaultSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 89×
- United States of America Ex Rel. Albert B. Crosby v. Joseph R. Brierley, Superintendent, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaThird Circuit· 1968-12-09· cited 76×
- Commonwealth v. FromalSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-03-22· cited 68×
- Commonwealth v. CheathamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 61×
- Commonwealth v. ClarkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 57×
- Commonwealth v. HollandSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-20· cited 49×
- Commonwealth v. RoxberrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-13· cited 48×
- Commonwealth v. SaundersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-13· cited 44×
- Commonwealth v. WadeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-05-27· cited 43×
- Commonwealth v. HayesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-04-15· cited 38×
- Commonwealth v. CichySuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 37×
- Commonwealth v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-13· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. DudenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-03-16· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. MeadowsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-06· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. WeinderSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-10· cited 29×
Cites
9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. KravitzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-04-18· cited 174×
- Commonwealth v. BolishSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-04-19· cited 148×
- Commonwealth v. HomeyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-02-13· cited 113×
- Commonwealth v. NasutiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-06-25· cited 86×
- Commonwealth v. ButlerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-07-18· cited 81×
- Commonwealth v. HartSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-05-22· cited 45×
- Commonwealth v. SaudersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-10-07· cited 35×
- Commonwealth v. ColemanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-01-04· cited 24×
- Commonwealth v. DeyellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-05-04· cited 22×
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