Commonwealth v. Wright

How courts have described this case

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

• Holding no destruction of evidence actually occurred because the Commonwealth never had the notes at issue in its possession.
• due to subjective nature of a person’s mind, court must look at surrounding circumstances to determine mental state
• evidence that father failed for period of approximately eight months to make court-ordered payment for support of minor son in custody of maternal grandmother was sufficient to enable fact finder to infer “willful” refusal by father to support son

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Dotter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-12· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Gerulis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-13· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Crawford
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-13· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Moll
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-06-14· cited 17×
• Nelke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1986-12-10· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Bellini
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-28· cited 8×
• Kipps v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-05

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. O'SEARO
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Hamm
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Kontos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-04-22· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14· cited 53×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Stein v. Stein
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-24· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Smallwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 36×
• Panik v. Didra
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-05-26· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Bellis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-12-02· cited 19×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Wright v. Hendrick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-12-04· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Alston
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-09-21· cited 10×
• George v. George
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-21· cited 9×
• Lardieri v. Lamont
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-11-12· cited 9×