Commonwealth v. Baker

How courts have described this case

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

• noting potential for defense counsel to request special instruction to deadlocked jury informing them of option of non-unanimous verdict
• noting potential for defense counsel to request special instruction to deadlocked jury informing them of option of non-unanimous verdict
• summarizing the constitutionally problematic aspects of drawing the jury’s attention to appellate review, as catalogued in Caldwell
• noting occurrence of sustained objection, limiting instruction and motion for a mistrial upon hearsay testimony
• containing an extended discussion of Caldwell and granting relief on a Caldwell claim
• death sentence reversed where prosecutor's comments during penalty phase concerning \appeal after appeal after appeal\ tended to minimize jury's sense of responsibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Cox
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-11-19· cited 290×
• People v. Drake
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-01-11· cited 288×
• State v. Rose
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-09-22· cited 222×
• People v. Kimble
  California Supreme Court· 1988-02-25· cited 208×
• Commonwealth v. Baumhammers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-27· cited 187×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-12-21· cited 178×
• Commonwealth v. Laird
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-02-16· cited 170×
• People v. Milner
  California Supreme Court· 1988-05-12· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-02· cited 143×
• Branch v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 121×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Montalvo, M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-26· cited 113×
• In Re the Personal Restraint of Jeffries
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-04-07· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Chambers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-09-30· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-19· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Lark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-07-23· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Sattazahn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-07-30· cited 53×
• Porter v. Horn
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2003-06-26· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-07-22· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-02· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Blystone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-19· cited 43×