Commonwealth v. Zwierzelewski

How courts have described this case

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

• \disturbance of the peace\ included disturbance that \took place within the walls and on the grounds of a penitentiary\
• general riot statute applicable to prison riot; however, legislature subsequently enacted a statute to penalize riots in a penal or correctional institution
• local firefighters called to extinguish numerous fires, roads surrounding the institution blocked, entire institution taken out of the hands of the officials, and public feared mass prison break

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Dixon
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1982-06-18· cited 267×
• People v. Lacallo
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2014-06-19· cited 117×
• United States v. Bridgeman
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-11-28· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. GROSSO
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-06-15· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Grosso
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-11-15· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Reeves
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-28· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Ray
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1955-01-14· cited 8×
• Unnamed case
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-11-28· cited 1×
• United States v. Saxton
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1968-01-26· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Herr
  Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas· 1990-05-11
• Commonwealth v. Ngow
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-05-06

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1941-09-29· cited 179×
• Commonwealth v. Merrick
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1917-03-07· cited 25×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Haines v. Burke
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-07-14· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Kloiber
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-12-29· cited 5×