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.

• finding insufficient evidence of mens rea when defendant stopped to ask police for directions; (Footnote Continued Next Page
• accused driving stolen vehicle with no physical manifestation of theft stopped to ask police for directions; evidence was insufficient to sustain conviction for receiving stolen property
• defendant asked police for directions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hogan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-11-10· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Matthews
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-22· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Dunlap
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-20· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Stover
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-10-23· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-22· cited 7×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-20· cited 213×
• Commonwealth v. Henderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-04· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-27· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Kinsey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Phillips
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-20· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Caesar
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-22· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Ward
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-05-23· cited 3×