Commonwealth v. Boyd

How courts have described this case

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

• holding jury was entitled to infer malice from defendant’s failure to seek aid for victim after he shot her
• counsel's assistance deemed constitutionally effective once conclusion is reached that course chosen by counsel had some reasonable basis
• considering voluntariness of confession under totality of circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Kichline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 312×
• Commonwealth v. Topa
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 215×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 180×
• Commonwealth v. Mallory
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-02-19· cited 174×
• State v. Simon
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1999-08-11· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. D'Amato
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-22· cited 154×
• Commonwealth v. Robson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Chacko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-27· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Polimeni
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Niemetz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-11-26· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-18· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-23· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Bruno
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-07· cited 101×
• Leroy Brown v. Julius T. Cuyler, Supt., at S.C.I.G.
  Third Circuit· 1982-01-29· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Daniels
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-27· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-05-13· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Rawles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 74×

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• Culombe v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 1,662×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 1,351×
• Henry v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 1,121×
• Baldwin v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 789×
• Taylor v. Hayes
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 663×
• Codispoti v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 370×
• Frank v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-10-13· cited 306×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Butler v. Rundle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-15· cited 222×
• Commonwealth v. Garvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-06-28· cited 218×
• Charles Earl Brubaker v. Fred R. Dickson, Warden of the California State Prison at San Quentin, California
  Ninth Circuit· 1962-12-20· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 193×
• Commonwealth v. Eiland
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Carroll
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-11-12· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Bowden
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-10-03· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Chermansky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-05-21· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Mayberry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Holton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-10-11· cited 71×