Commonwealth v. Beasley

How courts have described this case

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

• condemning “prosecutor’s blatant and inexcusable inattention” in allowing box labeled “Police shooting, homicide of police officer” to be brought into courtroom
• in the context of a similar challenge to the (d)(9) aggravator, citing Travaglia and suggesting that the General Assembly can be presumed to have intended the same meaning for “conviction” across all subsections of 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(d)
• defendant cannot claim evidence was improperly admitted when he introduced it
• \convicted\; 42 Pa. C.S. § 9711(d)(10)
• “convicted”; 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(d)(10)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Spotz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-29· cited 764×
• Romano v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-13· cited 591×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 478×
• Commonwealth v. Lesko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-24· cited 398×
• Commonwealth v. Paddy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-30· cited 385×
• Commonwealth v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-10· cited 225×
• Commonwealth v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-21· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-17· cited 216×
• Commonwealth v. Baumhammers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-05-27· cited 187×
• Commonwealth v. Flor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-07-22· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Reid
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-05-24· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Holcomb
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-04· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-05· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Morales
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-18· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-18· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Rivers
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-01· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Goins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-07-11· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Travaglia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-09-28· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Smith, W., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-21· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Reid
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-05-27· cited 51×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• In Re Murchison.
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-16· cited 2,510×
• Turner v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,063×
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• Commonwealth v. Frey
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-13· cited 262×
• Commonwealth v. Travaglia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-09-29· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Bruno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-30· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-18· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-10-04· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Cain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-01-28· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Bobko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-09-19· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Styles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-08· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Dukes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-01-27· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Sisco
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-14· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-03-16· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Alston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Free
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1969-06-13· cited 23×