Commonwealth v. Young

How courts have described this case

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

• request for charge timely where written request submitted after closing arguments but before jury retired
• defendant shot a trespasser, wherein testimony from various individuals on scene differed in how the altercation began and the circumstances of the fatal shot, as well as the extent of prior interactions and threats exchanged between the defendant and the victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-23· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Birch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-07· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Soto
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-04-17· cited 4×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-20· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Cropper
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Lesher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-03· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Heatherington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Frank
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-02-16· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Walley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-17· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Gardner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 28×