Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[i]f the victim in this case had been aware of this force, a robbery conviction might have stood based upon the possible distinction between the force used to roll the victim over, and the force used to remove the wallet.”
• defendant could not be convicted of robbery when victim was unconscious and unaware of use of force
• where the sentence vacated may affect the sentence imposed by the court, we must remand

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• MacKbee v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 336×
• Stephens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-01-30· cited 285×
• Commonwealth v. Bedell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-07-28· cited 215×
• McElrath v. Commonwealth
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-06-13· cited 54×
• State v. Mitsuda
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1997-09-02· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-03-12· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Reed
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-06-08· cited 10×
• Greek Radio Network of America, Inc. v. Vlasopoulos
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1990-02-28· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1989-04-03
• Commonwealth v. Ferdinand
  Centre County Court of Common Pleas· 2007-12-17

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Campana
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-01-24· cited 306×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-18· cited 261×
• Commonwealth v. Goldhammer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-19· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-20· cited 51×
• Hall v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1898-02-14· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-21· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Windell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-08-14· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-02-24· cited 18×
• Brennon v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1865-11-15· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-11-18· cited 15×
• People v. Jones
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1919-12-17· cited 13×
• People v. O'Connor
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1923-12-19· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. McNair
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-08-22· cited 8×
• Ramirez v. Territory of Arizona
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1905-03-30· cited 5×