Commonwealth v. Cain

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[w]here a court gives two instructions, one erroneous and prejudicial and the other correct, reversible error occurs”
• charge which is correct in the abstract but misleading because of the manner in which the ideas are couched may be reversible error
• charge which is correct in the abstract but misleading because of the manner in which the ideas are couched may be reversible error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Prosdocimo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-08-17· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-10-24· cited 120×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Montalvo, M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-03-26· cited 113×
• State v. Faulkner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-11-21· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Rawles
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-01· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Mehmeti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-08· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Dillon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-10-31· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Galloway
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-11-23· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-01-20· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 13×
• In re Appeal of Stanton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-05· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Eberly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-16
• Commonwealth v. Mizell
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 1984-12-03