Commonwealth v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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

• counsel was ineffective for failing to produce the testimony of two eyewitnesses to the alleged beating of the accused by police, and medical testimony to corroborate it, so as to afford the jury grounds to disregard the accused’s oral admission which was made after the alleged beating

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-10· cited 336×
• Commonwealth v. Haynes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-06-14· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-18· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Thuy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-13· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-16· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Guerrisi
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-26· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Babb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-29· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Whyatt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-06· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Reed
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-30· cited 5×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Commonwealth v. Twiggs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 298×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-18· cited 46×