Commonwealth v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a new trial was not warranted where the evidence concerning Detective Pitts did not relate to the case at bar
• holding new trial not warranted where evidence offered against Detective Pitts was not specific to case at bar
• stating that “allegations in a newspaper article do not constitute evidence….” (quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that allegations of Detective Pitts' use of coercive tactics in other murder cases did not warrant a new trial where none of the proffered witnesses would provide any new evidence in Brown's case
• “Appellant failed to preserve this claim for appeal as he did not object to the prosecutor’s statement at trial and raises this argument for the first time on - 14 - J-S45013-23 appeal. See Pa.R.A.P. 302(a).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Golphin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-08· cited 59×
• Com. v. Epps, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-09-23· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-06-11· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Blakeney, H., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-09-21· cited 26×
• Com. v. Mack, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-27
• Com. v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-26
• Com. v. Hernandez, V.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-05-14

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Widmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 1,854×
• Commonwealth v. Grazier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-06-15· cited 1,461×
• Commonwealth v. Clay
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-02-08· cited 985×
• Commonwealth v. Caldwell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-05-29· cited 679×
• Commonwealth v. Farquharson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 388×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-06· cited 387×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-21· cited 299×
• Commonwealth v. Chamberlain
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-10-14· cited 270×
• Commonwealth v. Pagan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-17· cited 225×
• Commonwealth v. Sandusky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-02· cited 194×
• Commonwealth v. Castro
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-16· cited 184×
• Commonwealth v. Watkins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-29· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Jordan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-24· cited 87×