Commonwealth v. Burkett

How courts have described this case

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

• holding weight of evidence claim waived when not presented to trial court
• noting a claim challenging the weight of the evidence generally cannot be raised for the first time in a Rule 1925(b) statement
• explaining failure to use any of prescribed methods for presenting weight issue to trial court constitutes waiver of that claim on appeal, even if trial court addresses it in Rule 1925(a) opinion
• generally, a claim challenging the weight of the evidence cannot be raised for the first time in a concise statement
• generally, a claim challenging the weight of the evidence cannot be raised for the first time in a concise statement
• generally, a claim challenging the weight of the evidence cannot be raised for the first time in a concise statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Sherwood
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-11-06· cited 442×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-26· cited 227×
• Commonwealth v. Watson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-31· cited 211×
• Commonwealth v. Love
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-04-03· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Causey
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-09-18· cited 94×
• Com. v. Cox, V., Jr.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-04-22· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Weir
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-17· cited 67×
• Youst v. Keck's Food Service, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-06-11· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Ross
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-07-13· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-18· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Dargon
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-03-11
• Commonwealth v. Sampson
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2013-01-09
• Commonwealth v. Lagreca
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-01-08

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Widmer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-20· cited 1,854×
• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 478×
• Commonwealth v. Tate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-05-01· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Aguado
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-06· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Hudson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-03-18· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Jette
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-24· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Nicotra
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-07· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Washington
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-28· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Kohan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-23· cited 32×
• K-B Building Co. v. Hermara Associates, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-14· cited 9×