Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal

How courts have described this case

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

• appellate judge refusing to disqualify himself because of lack of participation in the case while serving as prosecutor; no discussion of the appearance standard or whether a reasonable person might have questioned his impartiality
• appellate judge refusing to disqualify himself because of lack of participation in the case while serving as prosecutor; no discussion of the appearance standard or whether a reasonable person might have questioned his impartiality
• “Appellate decisions are made from cold records and prior rulings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Julien
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2002-06-24· cited 52×
• In Re Zupsic
  Judicial Discipline of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-29· cited 18×
• Matos v. Geisinger Medical Center
  Columbia County Court of Common Pleas· 2014-03-12

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schneiderman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1943-10-11· cited 695×
• Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-27· cited 428×
• Melvin R. Laird, Secretary of Defense v. Arlo Tatum
  Supreme Court· 1972-10-10· cited 291×
• Commonwealth v. LaCava
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-19· cited 252×
• Commonwealth v. Edmiston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-10· cited 196×
• Commonwealth v. Darush
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-28· cited 166×
• Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-06· cited 159×
• Commonwealth v. O'Shea
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-13· cited 138×
• Goodheart v. Casey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-23· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-06-08· cited 17×
• Matter of Searches Conducted on March 5, 1980
  E.D. Wisconsin· 1980-09-23· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Trudell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-02-22· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Cassidy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-02-03· cited 16×
• Muench v. Israel
  E.D. Wisconsin· 1981-10-21· cited 10×
• Petersime Incubator Co. v. Bundy Incubator Co.
  Supreme Court· 1943-10-04· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-26· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Goodie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-15· cited 1×