Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 6/10/1980
Commonwealth v. Williams
Citations
- 415 A.2d 403
- 490 Pa. 187
- 1980 Pa. LEXIS 687
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding the appellant was not entitled to an involuntary manslaughter instruction where there was no evidence that the killing resulted from an accident or negligence; but rather, all evidence reasonably pointed to the appellant striking the victim in the head with a pipe during a robbery
- in light of the facts, it is ludicrous to suggest that the defendant recklessly or negligently struck twelve blows with an iron pipe to the blind victim’s head
- rule applied to instruction on involuntary manslaughter
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, Kauffman
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36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. ZettlemoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-04· cited 461×
- Commonwealth v. FreySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-13· cited 262×
- Commonwealth v. FletcherSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 172×
- Commonwealth v. YarrisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-17· cited 120×
- Commonwealth v. LeanerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-08· cited 105×
- Commonwealth v. WhiteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-02· cited 98×
- Commonwealth v. CarterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-22· cited 97×
- Commonwealth v. TrillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-05-12· cited 82×
- Commonwealth v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-29· cited 64×
- Commonwealth v. LarkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-23· cited 57×
- Commonwealth v. ClaytonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-15· cited 57×
- Commonwealth v. GroveSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-18· cited 47×
- Commonwealth v. HaynesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-06-14· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. RogersSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-10-01· cited 39×
- Commonwealth v. PattonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-11-19· cited 38×
- Commonwealth v. D'AmbroSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-02-02· cited 37×
- Commonwealth v. ToledoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-07-21· cited 31×
- Commonwealth v. SirianniSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-16· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. YaleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-11-10· cited 26×
Cites
12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Giaccio v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court· 1965-11-08· cited 598×
- Commonwealth v. PolimeniSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 110×
- Commonwealth v. GarciaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 101×
- Commonwealth v. WhiteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-06-02· cited 98×
- Commonwealth v. ComberSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-05-27· cited 90×
- United States ex rel. Matthews v. JohnsonThird Circuit· 1974-08-15· cited 66×
- Commonwealth v. GartnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-01· cited 64×
- Commonwealth v. ManningSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. FordSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 41×
- Commonwealth v. McClendonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. ThomasSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 17×
- Commonwealth v. HinsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 10×
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